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Word: shooed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Singleton is high on Cuccia but stresses that he is not a shoo-in to start for the freshman team. "Whoever knows the system best will start. It doesn't matter how much talent you have if you don't know the system...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Ron Cuccia | 9/29/1978 | See Source »

Jogging is a very '70s pursuit, and Hausman's goons have to shoo away armies of gum-soled fitness freaks whenever they get in Hair's way. Most are gracious, and one even pitches in to help tether a 40-ft. red phallic balloon for the crew. But a thirtyish intruder does not take it well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Manhattan: Reliving the '60s | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...been reading you Washington Post style section, you'd know that the bookmakers had Richard Burton at two-to-one. Zero-for-eight in the old "Best Actor" category. A shoo-in, match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oscar Beats the Odds | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

Thompson is considered a shoo-in for re-election this fall, though his likely Democratic opponent, State Controller Michael Bakalis, 39, is no lightweight. He has already started attacking Thompson on the issue of his presidential ambitions. "We have a Governor who plans to get out of the state as soon as possible," charges Bakalis. Other Democrats accuse Thompson of being a "do-nothing" Governor, though his program of "limited goals" seems to be as popular with voters in Illinois as it is with other Americans who are fed up with Government interference and bureaucracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rookies with Big Dreams | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Just before Cyrus Vance arrived in Jerusalem last week, Israel's Premier Menachem Begin caused a stir with a public admission: Israeli artillery regularly fires into south Lebanon to shoo away Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanese Christian enclaves in the border area. In fact, during a recent seven-day period, Israeli batteries-sometimes directed by observers in spotter planes-fired 16 times at Palestinian forces near the seven Christian villages in the border area; during the same week, the Israelis manned two observation posts in Lebanese territory and sent in seven patrols-one of which got into a firefight with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Israel's Secret War | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

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