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Word: slews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student felt the disappearance was owing to the energy crisis: "Nixon is burning the tapes for fuel since he has turned the White House thermostat down." Another found cinematic possibilities: "Spiro got them for John Wayne, who will make a film entitled Who Slew Dickey-Poo? It will be filmed in Paranoia." Yet another suggested that "Pat Gray threw the tapes away in his Christmas trash." Other explanations were tonsorial ("Haldeman made his new hairpiece out of synthetic materials made from shredded tapes"), recreational ("Bebe Rebozo made them into eight-track tapes and plays them on his yacht"), even sporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: What Reelly Happened | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL and Other Guns with Which Americans Won the West, Protected Bootleg Franchises, Slew Wildlife, Robbed Countless Banks, Shot Husbands Purposely and by Mistake and Killed Presidents-Together with the Debate over Continuing Same by ROBERT SHERRILL 352 pages. Charterhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bangs and Whimpers | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

Enter the Great Society and a slew of new programs for the Point. Family services, youth programs, tutoring, manpower training and senior citizen services appeared. Perhaps the most heralded change, in 1966, was a neighborhood health clinic, one of two in the nation, providing free health care to the residents...

Author: By Michael C. Winerip, | Title: Columbia Point and PBH: Big Brother Is Gone | 10/23/1973 | See Source »

McCurdy's main worry about the meet is the slew of injuries that has befallen the thinclads...

Author: By Theodore O. Rogers jr., | Title: Thinclads to End Season Against Yale | 5/18/1973 | See Source »

This policy has attracted such foreign-owned giants as Vöest, an Austrian combine that is expected to turn out $1.1 million worth of steel annually on Taiwan, and a slew of electronics firms: Sony, Hitachi, RCA, Motorola, Zenith, Admiral. Taiwan is now the chief supplier of black-and-white TV sets to the U.S. Ford Motor Co. has embarked on a $36.3 million venture with Lio Ho, a Taiwanese firm, to produce several small economy cars, selling at around $1,600, for the Asian market. The island also produces Sanyang motorcycles. Taiwan lately has switched to seeking capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAIWAN: Prosperity in Isolation | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

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