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Word: orals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent years it has become almost an oral tradition for clerks to poke fun at Burger as a vain and pompous man who likes French wine, as well as all things English, particularly English barristers, whom he considers to be more "civilized" than American lawyers. On occasion, he has been preceded by a messenger who gravely announced to startled clerks, "Gentlemen, the Chief Justice of the United States." Paranoid about press leaks, he opposed Rehnquist's suggestion for a weekly tea with clerks because he thought it a security risk. The court's press officer, Barrett McGurn, regularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Inside the High Court | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Gordon's parietal hours seem almost decadent compared to those of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla. At ORU, where resident advisors check every student room at midnight on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends, visiting hours for the opposite sex are held once a month, for two hours...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: It's 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Students Are? | 11/2/1979 | See Source »

...find much better books about jazz. For literary merit, read LeRoi Jones's uneven but occasionally brilliant Black Music. For biography and oral history, read Spellman's Four Lives. For comprehensive approach and an up-to-date discography Frank Tirro's Jazz: A History is among one of the best. But if you know nothing about jazz and want to learn, spend your money on records instead...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Jazzing Up an Old Age | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

...More than two-thirds of the girls and nine-tenths of the boys approve of oral sex, and among 17-to 18-year-olds, more than half of each group has performed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Flaming Youth | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Humanities 9a, "Oral and early Literature" the second largest last fall, will be offered in the spring semester, and two other popular courses--Soc Sci 160 and Nat Sci 19 will be offered next year...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Social Analysis 10 Tops 1000; Largest Harvard Class Ever | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

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