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Word: trained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will select men for the eight-cared heavyweight boast, for the four-with-coxswain, and two alternates. The fourteen rowers will have about seven weeks to train together in preparation for the late summer Olympics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parker Named Olympic Crew Coach | 4/21/1972 | See Source »

...ears and I wasn't thinking about sex. I had to occupy my mind other ways. Usually I just sang teenage death songs. Laura's boyfriend Tommy drove to the stock car race and killed himself about 22 times during the course of the Marathon, and if that train didn't kill Teen Angel the first time, I imagine it had by the nineteenth...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking up the Bennies | 4/18/1972 | See Source »

...have much time, that he could go at any minute," says Jerry Orbach. "Consequently, a minute spent talking to Joey was like an hour spent with someone else. There was no 'how's the weather?' or small talk. He was somebody who had to catch a train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Our Friend Joey Gallo | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...case you missed the revival of the Weill-Maxwell Anderson Lost in the Stars which passed through town a few weeks ago, September Song gives you a chance at least to hear some of the numbers. Unfortunately, most of the songs in this show depend on their context, but "Train to Johannesburg" and "Cry the Beloved Country" communicate some of the force of the original...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: September Song | 4/11/1972 | See Source »

...Although Train's speech implied a need for severe environmental regulatory measures, he said it was not necessary to accept "the dire hypotheses and methods underlying some of the more extreme predictions." A decidedly dire method of population control was advanced last week by the California social welfare board. The board's proposal for reducing illegitimacy in the state smacks ominously of Anthony Burgess's satiric novel The Wanting Seed, in which phony wars, homosexuality and cannibalism were officially encouraged as antidotes to overpopulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: An Immodest Proposal | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

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