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Word: saturday (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meetings occasionally address more than local issues. A few years back, when Richard Nixon was still in office, the Lexington Town Meeting spent a good hour debating in all seriousness whether the Saturday Night Massacre of October, 1973 was enough reason not to invite him to the town for its annual Patriots Day celebration...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Athenian Democracy in Small-Town New England | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

Geoff Stiles, a cool competitor who makes few miscalculations, proved himself wrong Saturday...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Geoff Stiles: Pole Vaulter With Style | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

Rosita Fernandez-Rojo, a student trustee, said yesterday the Hampshire board of trustees, complying with a majority vote in the Finance Committee at Hampshire, formally stated its decision divesting Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hampshire College Sells Stock With South African Connections | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

...story was Stone. The Louisville, Ky. native topped off a fine year by capturing the one-meter dive on Thursday with 401.55 points and coming back Saturday to take third place in the three-meter event with a 383.65 mark--only 8.6 points behind the winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stone's Dives Lift Swimmers | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

...doing well, nicely beating The Incredible Hulk on CBS and crushing ABC's Making It. Unfortunately for NBC, its stockpile of good shows is so low that it cannot capitalize on such a strong lead-in; there is nothing for an encore. ABC also starts behind on Saturday, with the mindless Delta House, but the night is saved by Love Boat and Fantasy Island, both strong, fatuously cheerful shows. Sunday is also a downer for ABC, with the grotesque Battlestar Galactica, which is a very bad parody of Star Wars. Monday's starter, Salvage-1, usually loses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos in Television | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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