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Word: placing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign will soon be a pitched battle among the candidates. But among the people who do the voting, the candidates will be viewed through a prism of what they seem to offer in the way of help on energy and inflation and America's place in the world. More than in any recent election, the country will be looking at the candidates skeptically, doubting their promises, almost cynical about their abilities to alter fundamentally the nation's course. Says Maine's Senator Edmund S. Muskie, himself a failed presidential candidate in 1972: "People no longer believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: May the Best Man Win | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...wintering in Texas in 1915, she met Ike, then an Army second lieutenant. Nine months later, the pair were married. For an Army wife, there was never a permanent home. "I have kept house in everything but an igloo," Mamie once said. "I long to unpack my furniture some place and stay forever." Their first child, Doud Dwight, died at three of scarlet fever. A second son, John, has had an Army career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Quiet First Lady | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Yale's 92 points narrowly squeezed out Brown, which took fourth with 95 points. Dartmouth came trodding far behind with 133 points and sixth place in the meet...

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Harriers Nab Second in Ivies | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

Besides the outstanding team performances by Princeton and Harvard, the only two teams to place all of their top five finishers among the first 25 spots, several individuals stood...

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Harriers Nab Second in Ivies | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

Crimson ace Johanna Forman, Harvard's second finisher, came from way back in the field and placed seventh with a time of 16:40. Sophomore Kristin Linsley, senior Kat Taylor, and sophomore Ashley Warren crossed the finish line in 18th, 23rd, and 25th place respectively...

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Harriers Nab Second in Ivies | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

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