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Word: spots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worry is the oil industry. Maine still has no laws regulating oil spills, offshore drilling and the like. Yet oilmen are now surveying the state's harbors, the only ports in the East deep enough to berth the industry's ever larger supertankers. The key trouble spot is Machiasport, where three companies plan major refineries despite thick fogs and tricky currents that pose serious risks of tanker mishaps and oil spillage. Devoid of controls, says Cole, "the state is standing stark naked to the oilmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resources: Trying to Save Maine | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...FIRST-TIME reviewer is in a spot. After years of slogging through the editorial pages on safe, dependable Political Analses, he's afraid to bare his artistic judgments before the breakfast-table audience. And when he knows that his first appearance as a critic will also be his last, he may secretly wish that he could make his reputation on something other than a skin-flick review...

Author: By Jim Fallows, | Title: Animals The Vixen | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

...healthy Gary Farneti. Cornell knew that he would miss the game at Ithaca two weeks ago, and it patterned its offensive game plan to take advantage of the injury. Tailback Ed Marinaro aimed at the right side of the Harvard defensive line throughout the game, running directly at the spot where Farneti would have been. The results were exactly what Cornell had hoped...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

Deputy Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst and Asst. Secretary of the Treasury Eugene Rossides said Thursday that "in a spot check of college campuses, the government found Mexican marijuana almost unavailable at Yale, Harvard, and the University of California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grass is Scarce | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

...worst position in the world to play. In intramurals, the best booters rush to the front line positions and then tell the shy beginners to "give it a try at fullback." Ten seconds later the semi-pros are charging down the field with the ball, smiling greedily as they spot their innocent prey attempting to stop them...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Soccer Fullback Gray Embarrassed, But Not by Crimson's Shutout Streak | 10/25/1969 | See Source »

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