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Word: vacuuming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corner of the Penn endzone. McInally has every prerequisite for greatness-size (6'6", 225), agility, speed (4.6 in the 40), good hands, good instincts, and the ability to run well with the ball. It seems anything close to his huge frame he sweeps in like a vacuum. Pat already is tied for career receptions and owns the single season record for receptions at Harvard...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Football: Harvard's Title Chances Hinge on the Defense | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...Bufo marinus is a vacuum cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Bufo Plague | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

Fishermen in modern, mechanized trawlers can easily draw bottom fish off the ocean floor with a kind of vacuum cleaner or haul in whole finny schools in a single huge seine net. Industrialized nations, like runners poised in their starting blocks, are awaiting only one thing before the race for the sea resources begins in earnest. They have to know who has legal title to all that wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OCEANS: Wild West Scramble for Control | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...Until now, everyone seemed to think that Franco would be eternal," said one of Spain's leading editors last week. "Now there is a lot of looking into the future. The trouble is that all you see is a giant vacuum. Like any good dictator, Franco has made sure there is no successor." That failing could some day mean grave trouble for Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Toward an Uncertain Future | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...executive editor of the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal until 1968, Callahan aimed his iconoclasm at such churchly concerns as priestly celibacy (against it), divorce reform (for it) and abortion (for it). Increasingly concerned that mankind's social and scientific skills were developing in a moral and ethical vacuum, he founded in 1969 the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences in the New York suburb of Tarrytown. Through conferences, newsletters and testimony before legislative bodies, the 84-member institution seeks to influence policy in areas like genetic engineering, behavior and population control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

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