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Word: motorize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dress up in hooded sheets and build a bonfire near a gnarled old tree. Then they get right down to business and sacrifice a victim. This gives the boys across the ravine-Fonda and Gates-a mighty eyeful and a good scare. They climb back aboard their $36,000 motor home and hightail it out of there, accompanied by their anxious spouses (Loretta Swit and Lara Parker) and a nervous dog (Ginger) and pursued by the entire coven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Heck on Wheels | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

John Brennan's career at Ford Motor Co. seemed to be a classic American success story. In 31 years with the automaker, Brennan, now 56, rose from unskilled laborer through a variety of sales and administrative posts to chairman of Ford of Switzerland. His jobs involved attendance at endless rounds of lunches and social affairs, most of them bibulous. Consuming more and more liquor on the way up, Brennan became an alcoholic, subject to recurrent blackouts. Finally, five years ago, he took early retirement from Ford. Now he is suing the company for $1.3 million, contending that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXECUTIVES: An Alcoholic's Challenge | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

Nissan and Toyota Motor Companies each contributed $1 million last year while the Korean Traders Association pledged $1 million to create a professorship in Modern Korean Economy and Society at Harvard...

Author: By Bradley D. Simon, | Title: East Asian Studies Drive Raises Nearly $12 Million | 8/1/1975 | See Source »

...Ford Motor...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Thomas Crooks | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

...after some talking Crooks went to work for Ford Motor, in Somerville. He says he enjoyed it, but when Harvard called two years later he jumped at the chance to come back and has been here ever since. He was director of student placement, assistant director of the Summer School, dean of special students, master of Dudley House and director of the Summer School, a career on the edge of the University but a long way from Seminole all the same. Thinking it over, perhaps becoming master of Dudley House was what did it, what committed Crooks to a life...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Thomas Crooks | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

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