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Word: mortals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passes from Walton. When the Bruins use a more methodical, set offense, it also revolves around Walton as shooter, passer and pick setter. That strategy almost broke down two weeks earlier when U.C.L.A. beat a tenacious Maryland team by only one point, emerging from that unnerving contest looking merely mortal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wolves and Bears | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...rode to Legion Field that Saturday on a chartered bus, since no mortal could have braved the flood of football traffic that always took over downtown Birmingham on Auburn-Alabama day. Our fellow travellers were a wild assortment of banner-waving, horn-blowing, bourbon-swigging Alabama fans. Along the way, the men had cursing battles, sang obscene fight songs, and bet themselves into insolvency over the outcome of the game...

Author: By Dale S. Russakoff, | Title: The Tide Rolls On | 12/6/1973 | See Source »

...inherent, unchallengeable constitutional power to act at home and abroad, in the interest of national security. As the cold war continued Presidents cried wolf more and more. There came a tune when President Nixon could speak of the publishing of the Pentagon papers as an all but mortal threat to the Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Oval Fortress | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...Just when it began to appear that the Norn Mother had forgotten us completely, she turned out three men to meet our mortal needs. How refreshing it is to hear "Cox. Richardson and Ruckelshaus" instead of "Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1973 | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

McGuane carries the process of Tom's self-definition to its ultimate conclusion as Tom persists in his ambition and courts inevitable mortal opposition from old-timer Nichol Dance over his share in Key West's tourist guiding trade...

Author: By Martha Stewart, | Title: Fish Comes to Shove | 11/13/1973 | See Source »

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