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Word: petered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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While lines like "Men aren't all bad, just 92 per cent bad" ring hollow, worshippers of Texan jargon strike oil in Whorehouse. But you can find choicer idioms in the glorious novels of Peter Gent and Dan Jenkins. Those novels aren't pretentious; this play is. It strains to hard to mock every Texan myth that the effect is laughable, more than laudable. So see it and laugh--after all, John Connally may be the next president. And John Tower reportedly liked it. Hot damn...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Dead Solid Texas | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...that supplied lunches to 40,000 city schoolchildren. Radiation levels higher than normal were also found in the urine of local residents and in the water of a parochial school swimming pool. Rather than fight to retain its license, American Atomics decided to leave the state. Said Company President Peter Biehl: "It's quite clear that people don't want us in Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Tritium Chocolate Cake | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Peter Lougheed, premier of Alberta, said yesterday Canada can no longer supply oil to the United States, but added that his province is prepared to double its natural gas exports to meet American energy demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Canada Will Stop Flow of Oil to U.S., Alberta's Premier Predicts at B-School | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson Football Statistics Tackling Leaders Tackles Assists Total Chuck Durst 15 1 16 John Castro 12 0 12 Jay Foley 11 0 11 Matt Sabetti 11 0 11 Steve Hollman 10 1 11 Bob Woolway 7 2 9 Jim DeBello 6 2 8 Scott McLeod 7 0 7 Peter Coppinger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Football Statistics | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...Bach at his exultant best. Each frame of the film could have been the master work of a Rembrant. The combination brought my emotions to my throat where, throughout the rest of the film, they threatened to burst forth like rainbows and flowers from the top hat of a Peter Max figure. And I'm not kidding...

Author: By Sarah M. Mcgillis, | Title: Truth and Beauty | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

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