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Word: signs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual Americans as well as our government. Harvard students may take part by supporting the November 15 fast sponsored by the Harvard Hunger Action committee. Food Services will contribute one dollar for every student who pledges to fast that day. The committee will donate the proceeds to Oxfam-America. Sign-up tables will be in the dining halls today through Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambodia's Plight | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

...week A.S.U. Athletic Director Fred Miller released statements from four players who swear that they witnessed the assault. One of them, Steve Chambers, told TIME: "He's hit me with pipes, boards and a ship's rope." Another A.S.U. player said that team members were asked to sign affidavits stating that they never saw Kush hit Rutledge. Some signed. "I learned that Frank Kush was attempting to cover up the fact that he hit Kevin Rutledge," says Miller. "I could not allow our athletes and coaches to be further intimidated.' Meanwhile, Rutledge's family has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hit 'Em High | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...human craving for numbers tells a good deal about man kind. It is both sign and cause of man's long trek from the days of one, two, three, many. It can be taken as a symptom of exuberant joy in the quantity and multiplicity of things. Still, the dizzy acceptance of those truly incomprehensible figures might also be construed as a vicarious variation of the old Faustian game: the yearning to know the unknowable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Getting Dizzy by the Numbers | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...what they were up against the minute they boarded. A day-glo poster above the driver's seat read, "Don't ask me to think--I was hired for my looks." Tall, blond, and paunchy, wearing his name (Dick) on a big pewter belt buckle, the man beneath the sign greeted the "ladies" as the coach pulled onto the Mass Pike. "A couple of you look familiar back there," he said. "I didn't see you in a strip joint on 42nd Street...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Carter's human rights policy "did not contribute at all" to the South Korean perception of ebbing U.S. support, Reischauer said. Carter "flubbed" his human rights policy in both South Korea and the Philippines by "doing nothing," he said, explaining that by visiting Park, Carter gave him a sign of approval which made all previous scolding meaningless...

Author: By Nellie Henderson, | Title: Reischauer Says Policies Doomed Park | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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