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Word: soundness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Champions are what many of the grown fighters at Bogart's want to be, if only for a few glorious minutes. Between bouts, the theme from Rocky comes up on the sound system. But there seem to be as many Martys fighting-folks at loose ends just looking for something to do. Randy McDoniels, 32, an unemployed construction worker, and Steve Slaymaker, 31, a heavy-equipment operator, are fighting, according to Randy, "just for the good times." Others stepping onto the scale express similar reasons: "Hell, my friends are doing it," or "We're out for some laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Pleasure and Pain from Disco Punches | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...Since clearance had not been given, the tower assumed that KLM was simply at takeoff position and replied, "Standby ... I will call you." That order coincided with a Pan Am message that the Clipper was still taxiing on the runway, but the information was garbled by an unexplained whistling sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Flashback | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

Under the bill's provisions, which created the U.S.'s first Official Secrets Act, the government could have prosecuted newsmen who published information they knew to be leaked; could have made mass arrests of demonstrators within sight or sound of the President (for trespassing upon a "temporary residence of the President"); in short, could have quashed virtually all public protest of government actions. The bill was, in the words of one editorial writer, "the embodiment of all that is punitive, vengeful and retrogressive in the Nixonian philosophy...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: And S.1 Begat... | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

First of all, he is spending altogether too much time at your newspaper, and I'm sure he is falling behind in his studies. I know he has to really knuckle down this semester because he's taking four courses that sound very hard: History 1370, Biology 106, Visual and Environmental Studies 107, and Astronomy...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Not a 'Dear John' Letter | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...Geez," Clark countered, "that makes what I just said sound awful. But I do prefer the Don Quixote image of single combat; although, of course, it's part of a larger team effort. Ideally, a perfect play for an offensive lineman is to knock down every guy on the other side of the ball--almost like a broken-field...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Harvard's Line Is All Right | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

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