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Word: nosedives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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FOR THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT PEOPLE, specifically, about those powerful men who ran America in the Sixties. With remarkable clarity, Halberstam details the ways that decisions are made. Already we have seen a truckload of books which posit economic, political, psychological or altruistic motivations for American involvement in Vietnam...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: The Whiz Kids Go To War | 11/29/1972 | See Source »

We played in the same league that produced All-Pro Dick Butkus, and we played rough and hard. Fundamentals were our watchword; no fancy suburban passing, no exotic option plays, just a hard-nosed ass-kicking running game between the tackles. We played ghetto schools and working-class white schools...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Fullback Tyrell Hennings Is Yale's Newest Star | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

You played football in our neighborhood to prove you were a man, and you played rough. No fancy suburban passing, no wild flea-flicker plays, just a hard-nosed ass-kicking running game between the tackles. Football was always pushed as a way out of our neighborhood. If you hit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Gale From Yale | 11/21/1972 | See Source »

Hicks--the only congresswoman to lose last week--accepted defeat in the same manner that she ran her re election campaign--aloof from her supporters and surrounded by a tiny coterie of hard-nosed Irish politicians. Unlike Moakley who spent most of election night communing with his troops at Boston...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: From Old to New Politics in the 9th District | 11/15/1972 | See Source »

In a major deal that was heavily freighted with international politics, Japan's All Nippon Airways last week ordered six of Lockheed's L-1011 Tri-Stars, which are powered by Britain's Rolls-Royce engines. The $130 million sale was a sorely needed and roughly won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Somebody Up There Likes Lockheed | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

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