Word: references
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business. On the other hand, if you are going to be so tasteless as to start a movie like this one, it seems silly to try to act discreet once you go to work on it. Maybe the producers were afraid of offending what they would surely refer to as "powerful interests." More likely, though, given their laughably naive notions of just how the rich are different from you and me, they couldn't imagine their lovers acting any differently from some Scarsdale or Beverly Hills pair trying to make a go of a second marriage...
...atomic energy plant. These days young Paducans spend their time hunting birdies instead of bears. One of the new breed of golfing Paducans is David Paxton, a senior on the Harvard golf team who played some of the most superlative golf of his career this season. His teammates simply refer to him as "Paducah." "Paducah" Paxton took up the game just after dispensing with his swaddling clothes, wielding a sawed-off set of clubs handed to him by his father at the tender age of six. By the age of 13, he was heading out to the golf course early...
...been leaking secret memos and giving background briefings warning that the huge Soviet naval buildup of recent years requires a matching growth in U.S. seapower. These tactics have enraged the Navy's adversaries, primarily civilian aides in the office of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown. Some of them now refer to the Navymen as "bastards" and describe them variously as "stupid," "narrow" and "anachronistic." This name calling has not deterred the Navy from sounding general quarters and manning battle stations as if it were fighting for its life. In a sense it may be, for the eventual resolution of this...
Local Philadelphia residents refer to the Schuykill River as the "Sure Kill" because of its rampant pollution and acid pH balance. The waterway did indeed mean death for the Pennsylvania and Navy heavyweight crews on Saturday, as Harvard's varsity, J.V. and freshmen murdered them by convincing margins of at least a length...
...SHEEP WERE unhappy, and they baaaaed loudly, so Derek the Duck said he would establish the ACSR--the animals' committee to study rocks--and he would refer their complaints to the new body. So the ACSR met, and decided that the Aparkside system was indeed bad, and announced that someone, somewhere, somehow should immediately do something about it, or at least talk about it. And then they asked the Council of Owls to do something about...