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Word: reasonlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Violent crime has been fearfully persuasive throughout American history, and particularly in recent times. Between 1960 and 1976, the chance of being the victim of a major violent crime nearly tripled. Over three in every 100 Americans will be a victim this year. The elderly, with good reason, would rather go hungry than go out to the local Finast at night...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Thinking About Crime | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...game, driving inside Palmerton's 20-yd. line, but fails to score. Late in the third period, a touchdown pass is called back when an official spots an ineligible receiver downfield. "We need a touchdown," Dr. Verbruggen growls. But he wants the Bears to score for a special reason. "When kids get discouraged, their reflexes aren't sharp. They run at somebody halfheartedly. That's when they get hurt. It's even worse with younger kids. If it were up to me, I would eliminate all peewee and junior high school football. If you break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: Trying to Make Football Injury-Free | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...Cape of Good Hope; the westward movement in the U.S. came at the same time as the Afrikaaners moved north in covered wagons on their Voortrek. Both countries had gold rushes in the nineteenth century; both countries had to fight the British for their independence. The only reason America doesn't have South Africa's problems today, they'll tell you, is that the early Americans were better at killing off the indigenous peoples...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in South Africa: An Outsider Goes Inside | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...only reason I've stuck with it all these years is that I like football," Cavileer says. "They couldn't afford to pay me what I give them...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Statistician Bob Cavileer | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...turns out that the target is the gastro-intestinal system, and if we can purify the factor, then we might be able to help children who can't be breast-fed for one reason or another,' Tapper said yesterday...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Harvard Biochemist Discovers New Hormone in Mothers' Milk | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

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