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Word: somehow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter was a complaint from an organization of Harvard-Radcliffe Chicanos about a publicity poster to a Harvard mixer. Somehow from a "Brother Chico" poster stemmed allegations of sophisticated institutional racism and a hemophilic knee-jerk bleeding taking us all the way to the concerns of the Third World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicano Consciousness | 1/11/1977 | See Source »

...strength has always been its ability to find oil. The company was started in 1909 by William Knox D'Arcy, an adventurer who somehow had wangled a concession to explore in Iran. The British government bought a 51% stake in BP in 1914 because Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wanted a secure source of oil for the navy. Known originally as Anglo-Persian, the company was renamed British Petroleum several years after the government of Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized its Iranian concessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Selling a Stake in a Big Sister | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...year are taxed at an average rate of 63%, which makes the inflation hurt more. Fairly typical is Esther Mizrachi, 38, a Jerusalem housewife, who says, "If we can pay for our food and our children's education, we'll feel lucky." Yet the Israelis manage somehow; they overdraw on checking accounts to meet food bills, artfully dodge a tax law here and there. Though a Volkswagen Beetle costs $8,000 (excise taxes nearly triple the price of all cars), the number of private autos has nearly doubled since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Troubled Economy of Dreamers | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Albert was replaced in the opening bout by Jim Kaller. Battling against a poor opponent, the Crimson matman led, 9-8, with only three ticks left on the clock but somehow managed to get taken down at the buzzer for a 10-9 loss...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Buccaneers Hold Off Grapplers, 21-17 | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...goalie concentrated on Hozack, the senior center sent the disc across the goal mouth to Garrity, a freshman, who somehow controlled it on the other side of the crease and tipped it past a not-yet-turned-around Laycock...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Skaters Come Out of Reading Period Sleep, Send Bruins Back In, 4-3, On Late Garrity Goal | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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