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Word: moms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mom and Dad loved Campbell, and he was very impressed with my films, but I just couldn't stomach New York," the junior Physical Sciences concentrator from Kirkland House said. "The subways there really scared...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Gary Bosnic: The Kicker From the Sticks Makes It | 10/22/1977 | See Source »

...United Nations last week in a speech before the Synagogue Council of America. The occasion was the presentation of the council's peace prize to Miss Lillian, 79. Past recipients: John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Earl Warren and Nelson Rockefeller. Why does Jimmy's mom rate such an award? Besides her efforts in India, Miss Lillian, explained Young, has lived a "constant struggle for peace amid the poverty, tension and differences in south Georgia." Well, shrugged his white-haired listener, it all came easy. Drawled Miss Lillian: "I was born loving everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 10, 1977 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...many others, a new type of business is springing up: auto service centers that sell no gas but concentrate instead on providing auto repairs and parts. For example, Sears, Roebuck and J.C. Penney both operate a string of such centers nationwide. Yet hard realities cannot be denied. Like the Mom and Pop grocery store, the gas dealer who will check the oil, tune a motor or tow a car will almost certainly be ever rarer in the years ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Now, the No-Service Station | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...worst hit was Fedco Foods Corp., the nation's largest black-owned retailer, which had eight supermarkets looted. By last week, six were back in operation, as were several other well-capitalized, chain-owned markets and high-volume discount stores. But hundreds of tiny shops-most of them mom-and-pop operations that barely scraped by even" in the best of times-stayed gutted and shuttered. Reported TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin about the South Bronx: "Store owners gaze angrily at the rubble, the empty shelves and the twisted grilles hanging from their windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BLACKOUT: Counting Losses in the Rubble | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...junk food richly deserves that name, although it must be remembered that one man's meat is another man's corndog (a wienie impaled on a stick and dunked in a bubbling cornbread batter). But much prepacked or rapid-fire fare simply tastes better than the meals Mom used to make-when Mom's was the clapboard greasy spoon tucked invitingly along the two-lane highway, with three cars parked in front, all bearing out-of-state plates. Critics like to claim that the major chains are taking the adventure out of eating, that motorists are settling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Summer: Want Food Fast? Here's Fast Food | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

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