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Word: press (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defensively, Dartmouth has six returning starters but will be hard pressed to replace All-Ivy Joe Nastri and All-East Tom Kuchar at two of the linebacker spots. The secondary also looks thin beyond co-captain and safety Cody Press, especially if McLaughlin wins out in the quarterback derby...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Brown Has Size and Experience To Capture Ivy Football Title; Dartmouth, Yale Also Strong | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...YORK--Americans now give President Carter the lowest job rating of any president in nearly three decades, according to the results of an Associated Press-NBC News poll released yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carter's Approval Rating Drops to Record Low 19% | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Competition for Richmond's vacated spot should be tough. Junior Martha Roberts, number one her freshman year, rates as the favorite, but classmate Meg Meyer, who took over as team captain last year, should press Roberts for the top slot...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Netwomen Test Waters in Big Time | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...Vlasova had needed pressuring to return to the U.S.S.R., there was ample time to persuade her. When she arrived in Moscow, Vlasova was quoted as denouncing the U.S. for trying to compel her to stay, and was hailed hi the Soviet press as a heroine "who took a position of dignity and lofty civic duty" in the face of the "bourgeois brigands" of the U.S. If nothing else, the manner of her exit has probably saved her from what otherwise would have been her fate: the stigma of being the wife of a "traitor" with consequent loss of status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Exit Stage Left | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...with too much inflation of significance. In any case, decadence is too much a word of simplification. The U.S. is too complicated, housing too many simultaneous realities, to be covered with one such concept. Sub cultures of decadence exist, as they have in all societies. The amplifications of the press and television may make the decadence seem more sensational and pervasive than it really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Fascination of Decadence | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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