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Word: sams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the cost of sending an offspring through college rising more than 70% since 1970, the Government has been willing to come to the rescue when family funds fall short. Now it seems that Uncle Sam has been reviewing his own budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lost Loophole | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...Oakland is like finding one particular flea on a Saint Bernard." Nonetheless, his ten-month-old business is prospering, and he has been approached to lend his nom de chien to a movie about Sherlock Bones. He is also working on a book that will not be called Sam Spayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hercule Pawret | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...families stumbling around in blacked-out houses, the rapt attention paid to H.V. Kaltenborn, the vacations spent on beaches dark with oil from ships sunk off the New Jersey coast by German U-boats. Hoopes found hundreds of nostalgic oddments. One man remembers a lapel button: "It showed Uncle Sam, and when you pulled the string. Uncle Sam pulled Hitler up on a tree limb and hanged him. The slogan was LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo up in a bag to make it look like butter?" Restaurants posted a sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: W. W. II: Up Front and Back Home | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn sees it, Hatfield's argument requires the West to practice "self-deterrence." Said Nunn: "I remind my colleagues that the purpose of deterrence is to deter Soviet aggression, not to deter ourselves from responding to that aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Yellow Light for the Neutron Bomb | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...Baretta was solving a murder. A new pair of made-for-TV lovers (Italian and Jewish, natch) were trying to get it all together on CBS. Susan and Sam, an NBC comedy pilot, was getting a midsummer test flight. Then-phfft!-all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: When the News Tickers Fell Silent | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

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