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Word: porch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bunting often projects the feeling of a warm, motherly woman, easy to talk to and understanding. She is almost always accessible to students. Before the completion of Hilles, when the Radcliffe library was in the Radcliffe Yard, across Brattle Street from her house, she would leave her porch light on at nights if she was in. The light was an open invitation to any studying students to drop in on her for coffee, donuts and talk...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Mary Bunting: The Porch Light Was On | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...still going on, shows that those who receive federal payments to supplement their small earned incomes, and those who do not, both seek work with equal persistence. Says Dr. Harold Watts, one of the experiment's supervisors: "People simply do not take the money and sit on the porch and whittle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Welfare: Trying to End the Nightmare | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

Almost overnight, the symbol was everywhere to be seen. On the doors and porch posts of houses, huts and hovels from the Delta to the highlands, millions of neatly painted South Vietnamese flags suddenly appeared, in gorgeous hues of canary yellow and crimson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Beware: Wet Paint | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

Sheriff Tawes (Gregory Peck) is a righteous, brooding Tennessean overtaken by the sterility of his existence. His unattractive daughter asks him inane riddles at the supper table, his wife (Estelle Parsons) quotes marriage advice from the Reader's Digest and his senile father jabbers from the porch swing. When the sheriff questions a young mountain girl named Alma McCain (Tuesday Weld) about a traffic violation, he sees her as a chance-perhaps his last -for freedom, rebellion, sexual gratification, maybe even love. Alma's father (Ralph Meeker) sees a chance for something too: protection for his illegal moonshine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Autumn Passion | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

Yovicsin bowed out with predictable grace after the game, but a furious Carm Cozza was nowhere to be found. The Harvard band marched to President Pusey's house after serenading the team, and Pusey was so excited he came out on the front porch and joined them on cymbals...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Team Gives Yovicsin Farewell Present | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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