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Word: oft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHAIRMAN oft wolde set hys brows to crymple. He clept hymself a Country Lawyer Symple. A badde man or fals wolde hym mak syckyn, Men koud hym trust for used car or fryd chyckyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The Waterbury Tales | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...LORD he reigned in Ov1 Ofys³ sphere, Ful oft strove he to mak thyngs parfait clere.4 But wonder, though it get him legal scrapes, He, verraily, refus to clere The Tapyse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The Waterbury Tales | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

Newly-indoctrinated, oft-harried freshmen will always be subject to the advances of the entrepreneurs of HSA--Harvard Student Agencies. The Fuller Brushmen of Cambridge expend much energy trying to foist upon undergraduates class rings, their linen service and for those so inclined, bartending classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Guide To Harvard Acronyms | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...feats are preposterous and irresistible-if they happen to strike the reader in the right mood. Well and good, but Fraser had better not rest on his laurels. American Flashmaniacs can hardly be expected to wait much longer for him to come across with the great man's oft-hinted-at memories of cutthroat days at Little Big Horn and gunfights with Kit Carson. Ray Sokolov

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jaws of Death | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

Ehrlichman subscribed wholly to Nixon's oft-expressed dictum that the best defense is a good offense. He once responded to an inquisitive journalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Finally Hehrldeman on the Stand | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

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