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Word: six (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson dropped anchor in a teeming school of off-shore mackerel in the afternoon. "It was incredible," says Zewinski. "We were pulling in six mackerel at a time just as fast as we could drop the lines in." Zewinski and company used deep sea rods, equipped with phosphorescent lures attached to the six hooks on each line...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: 'Ask Any Mermaid You Happen to See...' | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

George Carlin is an American artist trying hard to keep growing. Eternity came breathing down his back six months ago in the form of a heart attack. Now, after three nights of sold-out adulation and guffaw at Long Island's Westbury Music Fair, he leans forward from his French Colonial chair in Manhattan's chic Pierre Hotel--he is surrounded by the stuff of decadence--and talks in his familiar streetguy talk, as he must have talked to the neighborhood kids in White Harlem 25 years ago, airing not so much as a hint of malcontent or overindulgence...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

Walter and Lee as in Diaz and Nelson, as in six and 12 goals respectively last year, as in nothing much so far this year...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Soccer Outlook | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

Lawyers for Remigia Brooke filed a contempt complaint in Middlesex Probate Court charging that Brooke has failed to pay his ex-wife $15,000 in alimony for the month of July. The suit was filed six weeks before Brooke comes up for election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooke's Wife Requests Court to Charge Husband | 9/26/1978 | See Source »

...least it seemed that way early in the night, before the Worcester returns popped magically out of the six-foot color screen that served as a tote board, whispering to those in the crowd who knew what they were doing that maybe this fellow King wasn'g going to lose after all. Before that happened--before the well-meaning crowd of mourners that had gathered to give their friend a good Irish wake had been so rudely interrupted by the sight of the corpse singing and dancing and leading the cheers--the party at Anthony's had been a pleasant...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Friends of Ed King | 9/26/1978 | See Source »

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