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Word: setups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setup. Mikey (Peter Falk) comes to the rescue of his best friend Nicky (John Cassavetes), who has shot a bookie and is holed up in a fleabag Philly hotel, going crazy. Nicky trusts no one. He has only one article of faith -that there is a contract out on him and he will be offed as sure as next morning's sunrise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hit Men | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Regulatory Ire. Kennedy's bill is a 33-page proposal for a variety of safety measures, including double bottoms for new tankers as small as 20,000 tons and a satellite monitoring setup that would keep track of tankers and other ships up to 200 miles offshore. Brooke is pushing for similar legislation and argued that if such a system had been in existence in December the Argo Merchant could have been spotted-and warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Demolition Derby at Sea | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...students find this disadvantage displeasing. Bernard Harris '79 said yesterday he was happy with the people and rooming setup at the Quad, where he yesterday he was happy with the people and rooming setup at the Quad, where he lives, adding he had no desire to move

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Task Force Favors 'No-Choice' Housing | 1/4/1977 | See Source »

...talk among the several gathered members of the Vise group is less than conciliatory. "We're going to resist them every inch of the way," says Mike Curtin, one of the arrested students, who has met Bechtel earlier this morning. "They've committed themselves to a quasi-legal setup; now we're going to turn it all loose...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Brown on Trial: 'We're going to resist them every inch of the way.' | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

...deepening confrontation to negotiation, the Russians were firing rhetorical broadsides from the sidelines, as if the trauma of another siege of shuttle diplomacy were almost more than they could bear. They accused the U.S. of "gimmickry" and of seeking to preserve "not only racial oppression, but the entire neocolonialist setup in Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: POISED BETWEEN PEACE AND WAR | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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