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Word: mined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finish line and edged the falling Russian by the length of his lucky cap (which he forgot to remove during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner). Growled Bowerman, who once withdrew a runner's scholarship because the boy got engaged: "Well, he sure shot one theory of mine to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dampening the Olympic Torch | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...could have happened. In the film's best scene, Alf gets drunk at his daughter's wedding, insults the guests and finally passes out. "He ruined my wedding," the bride weeps on her mother's shoulder. "Don't worry," Else soothes her. "He ruined mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Reruns | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...tiny enclave of Cabinda, the site of Angola's newly-discovered oil reserves and the rebel groups' second front, no one speaks of the war, except perhaps twice a year, when the explosion of a land mine is reported, an often as not killing civilians rather than military personnel...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Angola Is Not Portugal's Happiest Colony | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...world' quite evidently becomes less valid with every passing day and year." But old habits change slowly, and the new Almanac (circ. 4.5 million) still sports its share of sexist one-liners like "My wife leads a double life-hers and mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Short Takes | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...ingredient Sooth-X, and they got into the ad by decisively defeating little airplanes, tigers, rocket ships and genies in consumer testing reports. Brice's goal is to replace Gibbs & Wilson's list of luxury clients with packaged-goods industry giants. "Why, a friend of mine at Procter & Gamble told me I was taking over a zoo," he complains, shortly thereafter locking recalcitrant animals like Jim Bower out of their comfortable cages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Desert | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

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