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Word: santas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left. They received permission from the Lindbergh tower to make a practice approach under instrument conditions, since Lindbergh is the only airport in the area with the sophisticated electronics for guiding instrument flights. As they circled to await the assigned time for their training maneuver, a mild Santa Ana wind was blowing off the hot, dry desert out of the east, contrary to the normal prevailing winds off the Pacific. To aid the light craft, the tower gave approval for it to use Runway 9 (the designation for a runway heading of 90°, or due east). Commercial flights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death over San Diego | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Before graduating, Woolway was recruited by Colorado, Stanford, Santa Clara, Princeton and Harvard. He originally signed a letter of intent to play for Santa Clara and received a full scholarship. In April, however, he visited Cambridge, decided it was more to his liking, and passed up the free ride at Santa Clara. "I just really didn't want to get involved in a high-power football-factory type situation," Woolway said. "I take football seriously. It's just that there are other things besides football...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: He's One Lollapalooza of a Linebacker | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

Wanda: Candace West of Florida State and Don Zimmerman of the University of California at Santa Barbara. They taped a bunch of private conversations, and guess what they found. When two men or two women are talking, interruptions are about equal. But when a man talks to a woman, he makes 96% of the interruptions. They think it's a dominance trick men aren't even aware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Women Talk | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...were; this was It, the Big Meltdown. Perhaps it should be explained, start at the beginning, linear like, a very good place to start as Julie Andrews informed us in the dawn of our existence back in those sweaty movie theatres of Pittsburgh and Grosse Point and Santa Fe and Santa Monica...

Author: By Dequinces W. Josephson, | Title: Oh, Atlanta | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

...weepy, departing queen struggles to fix the crown on her successor's head. As a recorded chorus serenades, "She's a miracle, she could be Miss America. . . the one that we ado-o-o-re," the winner grips her scepter and hurtles toward the runway at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Practicing Swimsuit for Atlantic City | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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