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Word: petered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businessman with the most mines to lose. Dick Wagner (Paul Hecht) is a hardbitten Aussie, and a staunch unionist with a habit of regarding the Daily Globe, his paper, as larger than the earthly one. He is visibly miffed to find that an idealistic fledgling staff writer, Jacob Milne (Peter Evans), has scored a beat on him by interviewing the rebel leader. The trio is completed by a photographer (Dwight Schultz) who has apparently seen some thing of this increasingly nebulous struggle. As the play progresses, all the gentlemen in it begin to resemble rhetorical wallpaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Lady Be Good | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...Animals became part of the great chain of being and illustrators freshened their efforts to give birds and mammals moral characteristics. Perhaps the best and, ironically, the most obscure was Ernest Griset, whose influence can be seen in the works of such disparate artists as Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, and the whole phalanx of present-day New Yorker cartoonists. In Ernest Griset by Lionel Lambourne (Thames & Hudson; 88 pages; $8.95), even hints of Miss Piggy can be seen in the antic portraits of hogs and frogs and owls. The result is a rare pictorial biograph that shuttles between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves for $4.95 and Up | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

When Carter--who received credit for a goal when a Peter Evans shot deflected off his skate--and Fowkes added their goals in the final period, the Crimson appeared headed for its second straight road victory, until the two quick Bruin goals changed matters drastically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruin Rally Knots Icemen; Crimson Loses Late Lead | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...Peter Dykstra, Greenpeace spokesman, said yesterday the offshore drilling is unnecessary and hazardous because the estaimted amount of oil in George's Bank is low and because there are no environmental safeguards in the proposed plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Groups Organize Boston Rally Against George's Bank Drilling | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...Peter Engel '81, a CUE member who attended the council meeting yesterday, said he "was pleased that after eight months of work, we finally got something through--it can be rare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Stiffens Requirements For Sophomore Standing | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

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