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Word: move (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thrice-decorated ex-Marine at a safe distance, but, recognizing they were dealing with a crazed man, held their fire. Imaginatively, the police shouted back and forth with their own improvised military jargon: "A Company is located over there. B Company has been pulled back. C Company will move in." They pleaded with him to surrender. Perplexed, Coughlin, who had been high on drugs and alcohol the previous day, stood up and shouted, "Kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: War Casualty | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Viet Nam veterans in the past have used their wartime neuroses to upgrade their discharges from dishonorable to honorable. But the Coughlin case now demonstrates that in a criminal proceeding, the psychological disorders specifically attributable to Viet Nam combat experience can result in the dismissal of charges. This move could have far-reaching effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: War Casualty | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...higher seems pointless and may in fact aggravate the problems which the new legislation is attempting to address. All five neighboring states now have an 18-year-old drinking age, and teenagers would be able to get liquor elsewhere, simply by driving over the border. Drinking would move into back alleys and front seats. In addition, the proposed law would exceed its stated intent of removing alcohol from the school yards by discriminating against the thousands of students attending Massachusetts colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alcohol | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...first period, though evenly played, ended with the Blue on top, 2-0. Eli scoring leader Paul Castraberti started things off when he put linemate Danny Brugman in alone on Hynes. When the Harvard netminder made the first move, Brugman casually cut to his left and backhanded the puck by Hynes to give Yale the lead, 12:23 into the game. Six minutes later, Gavin Thurston tipped in a Castraberti slapshot for a power-play tally to make the score...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Icers Drop Another One, 4-1 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...snappy dialogue with nothing in between the lines. Lewis and Thompson (Lois Nettleton) bicker through an interminable "seduction" scene in her Berlin apartment, fly off to Moscow where he gets drunk and insults the Commies, return to Berlin where he gets drunk and insults her, get married and move to Vermont where she misses her journalism and he can't write, fly back to Europe where she exposes the German Third Reich as evil and violent while he collects the Nobel Prize, gets drunk and insults her, fly back to America where she's a national heroine and he gets...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Strangely Bland | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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