Word: pete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potato field. Well suited and priced for ex-G.I.s, Levittown soon became synonymous with instant and inexpensive suburban living: a home of one's own, a plot of land, no big city problems, no industry. Levittown also became a symbol of cookie-cutter suburban sameness (immortalized by Pete Seeger in a song about "little boxes made of ticky-tacky...
...There was no drop in sales. "After all," said a Jewel food stores official in Chicago, "what's Thanksgiving without a turkey?" At Camp David, where the Carters were celebrating with a swirl of Georgia relatives from both sides of the family, a 36-lb. turkey named Purdue Pete was flown in from Indiana in a black and gold cage to be prepared for the dinner table...
Democrats Sam Nunn of Georgia, J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, Joseph Biden of Delaware, and Republican Pete Domenici of New Mexico were re-elected to the U.S. Senate. They were joined there by Republican William Cohen of Maine and Democrat Bill Bradley of New Jersey...
...seemed to be on the way to their first winning season since 1970. Even expansion teams Seattle and Tampa Bay had managed to damage the play-off chances of the league's powers, scoring upsets over Oakland and Minnesota. It appears that competitive parity, long the aim of Pete Rozelle and other arms negotiators, has at long last been achieved...
...another two-goal outburst. RPI grabbed a 3-2 lead at 9:04 on a goal by junior right winger Ronn Tomassoni. A Crimson defensive lapse gave the Engineers their fourth goal less than two minutes later. Slack, in control of the puck behind the Harvard net, spotted Pete DeCenzo completely unguarded in the slot. DeCenzo didn't hesitate in rapping Slack's set-up past Lau's left side...