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Word: oregon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forget, the University of Wisconsin, this year's Big-Ten champions-to-be, will be hosting the University of Oregon Ducks. Which reminds me, this year's duck and goose hunting season opens half an hour before sunrise October 11. I'm usually awake by then and I plan to capture any ducks that are still sleeping in Quincy House at sunrise. As a punishment, I will then force them to go to my lectures and to take notes while I go to Yom Kippur services...

Author: By Bill GINS Berg, | Title: Fresh Footprints | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

Other fellows of the Institute who spoke were Herrington J. Bryce, vice president of the Academy for Contemporary Problems; Kim F. Skerritt, former Oregon Assistant Secretary of State; and Richard L. Sneider, former ambassador to the Republic of Korea...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Six Institute of Politics Fellows Trade Tales Of Successes and Failures In Political Life | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...most well-documented cases, eight women in Oregon suffered 10 miscarriages in five years. In each instance the miscarriage occurred immediately after areas near their homes were sprayed. The women's doctors signed affadavits and provided elaborate case histories which indicate that the dioxin probably caused the miscarriages. Women in other sprayed areas have given birth to severely deformed children, and again doctors posit no causes other than the dioxin...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Chemical Warfare at Home and Abroad | 9/20/1978 | See Source »

Then came a sequence of "whiles"-a while as a door-to-door encyclopedia and Bible salesman, a while as a plumber's helper in Oregon, a while as a disc jockey in Fort Worth, and so on. Willie was forever setting off for new destinations with everything he could call his own loaded into his 1946 Ford: Martha, the three kids they soon had, some furniture and an "Oklahoma credit card" (a length of hose for siphoning gas from roadside tanks). A few years of this and Martha began heading for a destination of her own: divorce court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...private institutions during the past decade. Though tuition, room and board at public colleges average around $2,000, many run quite a bit higher. Samples: the University of Vermont ($3,192), the University of Wisconsin ($2,583), the College of William and Mary in Virginia ($2,804), and Southern Oregon State College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, $30,000 Diplomas | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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