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Word: supers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which brings us to spring sports at Harvard. A quick rundown shows men's lacrosse and women's tennis to be the strongest suits in the Crimson deck. Baseball and Radcliffe lax should enjoy super rebounding seasons. Harvard tennis won't miss Jack Barnaby or Gary Reiner all that much. And then there's Alex Vik, El Sid, and the golf team...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Generally Speaking, In Particular... | 3/15/1977 | See Source »

Died. John Dickson Carr, 70, dapper, scholarly author of more than 100 mystery novels; of cancer; in Greenville, S.C. Under his own name and two pseudonyms (Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson), he created two super sleuths: an Oxford don named Gideon Fell and an engaging buffoon, Sir Henry Merrivale. Carr's specialties were historical mysteries and locked-room murders, involving a corpse found alone in a room sealed from the inside. Though his subject matter was grisly, Carr maintained that "morbidity has nothing to do with it, any more than with solving chess or mathematics problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 14, 1977 | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...SUPER-WEALTH: THE SECRET LIVES OF THE OIL SHEIKHS by LINDA BLANDFORD 319 pages. Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...Super Fly-pimp image to rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 7, 1977 | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

Obviously, foreign aid has always been a necessary instrument of U.S. policy. But it has rarely worked when it was used blatantly, or when the U.S. policymakers cast themselves, in the words of Wellesley Soviet Specialist Marshall Goldman, "as super-Platonic wise men." Sociologist David Reisman worries about "populist diplomacy à la William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson" with its admixture of evangelism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Carter's Morality Play | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

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