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Word: ultra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even the ultra-casual swimming far who watches aquatic sports only between the women's gymnastics and men's hoop on the tube every fourth year recognizes the source of the above phrase...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Divers Excel | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...mere mention of his name, Terrance Johnson, is enough to ignite an already explosive situation. You see, Johnson is black, the two slain policemen were white, and any Maryland resident will tell you that the most notorious features of P.G. County are its ultra-tense race relations and its controversial police force...

Author: By Lisa A. Newman, | Title: A Maryland County Goes on Trial | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Thomas McIntyre, 63, has been pulverizing ultra-rightist opponents in New Hampshire since his first election to the Senate in 1962. But last week, in a stunning upset, Democrat McIntyre was ousted. By 49% to 51%, he lost his Senate seat to conservative Republican Gordon Humphrey, 38, a co-pilot for Allegheny Airlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: And the Senate Bids Farewell | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...worked on a volunteer basis until 1946 when he began to keep official NCAA statistics of Crimson football. By that time,' though, he had become a researcher in ultra-low temperature physics at MIT. Cavileer worked on a team that developed a machine which produces liquid helium, an important breakthrough in the field...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Statistician Bob Cavileer | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

Wayne Moore will survive his injury--by the time he got to college, football was no longer an ultra-serious, life-or-death matter...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Say It Ain't So, P. Wayne | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

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