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Word: raisin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...Attempting to reheat Last night's coffee, toast some raisin bread, We find our electricity gone dead. Now each his own conductor, and at more Than concert pitch, rips through his repertoire On the piano while the other races For towels and pots-no end of dripping places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four Poets and Their Songs | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...start and only needed polishing. "Ninety percent of plays that call in a new writer and director fail," says Styne. "Sometimes the best you can do is to convince them to close," adds Joseph Stein, who wrote Fiddler on the Roof and has doctored such plays as Irene and Raisin. "If you're lucky, the show will be mediocre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Is There a Doctor in the House? | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...raisin-sugar cookies in the press room at Jadwin barely provided enough fuel to contemplate cruising to Philadelphia for the Crimson's contest against Pennsylvania this evening...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg and Laura E. Schanberg, S | Title: On the Road | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...other assorted unromantic difficulties. I yearn, crave, ache for the days of rock as a religion, with its electricity and excitement. A new religion might grant those of us with '60s mores and ideals living in the disenchanting '70s at least a brief reprieve from the raisin-less oatmeal that spews forth from supposedly FM rock radio stations without having to live in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1978 | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

MARRIED. Aretha Franklin, 36, long-reigning queen of soul, rhythm 'n' blues, gospel and nearly every other popular music territory; and Glynn Turman, 31, handsome actor of stage (A Raisin in the Sun), film (Cooley High) and television (Peyton Place); in a ceremony performed by the bride's father, the Rev. Clarence Franklin, in his Baptist church, with music by the Four Tops; she for the second time, he for the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1978 | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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