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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The sale, currently scheduled for December 18, will open a tract off Cape Cod--one of the world's richest fishing grounds--to exploratory drilling. Groups protesting the sale said that the Department of Interior's decision underestimates the roughness of the area's waters and the value of its...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Groups Call for Precautions Before Sale of Drilling Rights | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Against Wesleyan Saturday, Harvard's Courtney Stimpson was "thrown off a little" when her opponent's racquet hit her in the head. But, playing a finesse game, she recovered quickly to grab a victory in the third position, 15-10, 15-7, 18-16.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetwomen Shut Out Wesleyan, 7-0 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Leontes is one of those daunting Shakespearean leads that is almost impossible to pull off. His jealousy of his wife in the first three acts must grow until he loses the ability to think or function as king, or as human being. After his tyrannical madness, Leontes must reappear in...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: The Sad Tale's Best | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

WHERE HAVE ALL the heroes gone? Our era's cynicism and suspicion have seen more and more former idols rudely picked off their pedestals as they fall victim to literary sharpshooters armed with innuendo and calumny. Self-annointed revisionists continue to issue one-sided tracts condemning JFK's affairs, Elvis...

Author: By Paul E. Hunt, | Title: Whipping The Post | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

That's the sort of perverse passion that motivates Deborah Davis's Katherine the Great. While other authors have at least waited until their respective targets were safely settled in their graves before knocking them off their pedestals, Davis spares no such restraint in her heedless rush to profit from...

Author: By Paul E. Hunt, | Title: Whipping The Post | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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