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Word: surprisingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Faculty Council has cooperated with students on several important reforms--including equalizing the number of students and faculty members on the CRR and prohibiting lawyers in hearings--the council has made no concessions on the remaining points of reform. This intransigence is surprising considering the fact that the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Now More Than Ever | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

This is one year when the party politics of Massachusetts may run itself thin. "I think the number of Republicans winning this year will be surprising," King said. "Democrats in this election have been using 1940s-and-'50s-style politicking, rhetoric reminiscent of campaigns run in Mississippi when the Ku...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Yes Virginia, There is an Auditor | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Clark's story is a hybrid of The Rainmaker and the collected works of Larry McMurtry (Hud. The Last Picture Show). He tells of two antagonistic small-time ranchers, a tomboy spinster (Fonda) and a good-natured World War II veteran (Caan), who reluctantly pool their resources to battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Tame West | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

At home he never stops talking, says Marcel Marceau's wife, but on the stage France's master of mime favors the silent treatment. Fresh from a three year, 53-city tour, Marceau, 55, has returned to Paris with some new acts. "It's harder and harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Record | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Pat and Edwin kept reinvesting their profits and borrowing to acquire more land. Today the family owns 1,900 acres and rents another 1,600?underscoring a surprising point about modern U.S. farm economics. Tenant farmers these days are no longer the classic Southern sharecroppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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