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Word: thought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Again, Carter is in tune. His own quiet determination in achieving the presidency allowed no thought of failure. Winning was his life. He committed family, fortune, health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Winning Was the Only Thing | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...desperation quality to this campaign may mean few laughs for the next two years. Men who consider themselves indispensable rarely are, but it is no laughing matter. We may also be in for even more political show business. Image was not everything, but it was bigger than ever, a thought Jimmy Carter enlarged once he got in the White House. Tote bags, T shirts, red vests, scissors to cut red tape, calluses from work, playing a corpse in a college play, sliding down a fire pole-all were margins used by individual candidates in last week's relentless victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Winning Was the Only Thing | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...Yale Bowl in '75, a three-pointer which gave Harvard its first, last and only undisputed Ivy football title, seems the final link to a different age, one that never would have permitted Crimson losses to Columbia and Cornell within a month and would have been aghast at the thought that even a victory this afternoon can produce at best a fourth-place finish in the league...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: It Seems Like Only Yesterday, When. . . . . . 'Pineapple' Took It In . . . . . . and the Wobbly Duck Was Good | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...thought they were very ingenious," J. Lawrence Joyce, director of Buildings and Grounds, said of the pranksters. "I don't know how a referee or drummer in the band would have felt if he had been squirted with paint," Joyce added...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Pranksters Set Stadium Trap...Almost | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

Angela Davis, another participant in the skit, said that she thought it was especially important for Harvard students to protest the Burger court because "Harvard Law School is seen as a leading institution in the U.S. and has a reputation for being fair...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Protesters Demonstrate Against Burger | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

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