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Word: third (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oklahomans will vote on whether to ask the legislature to set mandatory minimum sentences for people convicted of their third felonies. There is virtually no opposition to the initiative, and it is expected to pass handily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wild Cards on the Ballots | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...have formed an unusual coalition that gives new meaning to the phrase City of Brotherly Love. The mayor has brought them all together by pushing for approval at the Nov. 7 election of a change in the city's charter that would allow him to run for a third term next year. His opponents include the Black United Front Against Charter Change, the liberal Committee to Protect the Charter and the businessmen's Committee for the Defense of the Charter. Says Banker R. Stuart Rauch Jr.: "Rizzo is a master at fragmenting the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rizzo Again | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

Stratton moves on to a corner of the third floor where the 13 female trainees are quartered. Twenty additional women are due soon. "I'm not looking forward to it," says Stratton. "I end up telling them about Tampax and the Pill and making sure they wear cotton underwear." Despite her own youth, Stratton thinks she is in danger of becoming a surrogate mother to the teen-age recruits. Her solution: "I'm too much of a bitch figure to be a mother figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: She Gives the Orders | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...head coach at Williams from 1963-1967. When the Ephmen went 7-0-1 in 1967, he was voted New England College Coach of the Year. Having returned to Columbia in 1968, Navarro's career reached its zenith in 1971 when the Lions went 6-3, only the third winning Columbia season since 1952. Navarro emerged as the messiah of Morningside Heights that year as the Lions won every one of their home games with Homeric heroics in the last seconds...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Navarro's Back in the Ivies Again | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

Yale finished a distant third with 60 points. The meet result gives rise to a three-way deadlock for the Ivy lead between Harvard. Princeton and Yale, the latter having defeated Princeton in an earlier meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Harriers Finally Lose | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

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