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Word: vincent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those hopes were extinguished almost immediately by the Clemson Tigers, whose roster includes such ominous-sounding names as Nnamdi Nwokocha (fr., Nigeria), Obed Ariri (sr., Nigeria), Godwin Ogbueze (sr., Nigeria) and Vincent Chika (fr., Nigeria...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia's Hot Soccer Team Freezes in NCAA Tournament | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...talented younger brothers along with him on his journey. Zoltan, saturnine and hypochondriacal, never left home without his oxygen inhaler and his health foods ("Vair is my kelp?" he once demanded of a bewildered porter), but was a first-class action-film director (The Jungle Book, Sahara). Vincent, Author Michael Korda's father, was an art director who could do the spectacular on a shoestring but never abandoned his bohemian ways. At the height of his career he sometimes wore Alex's hand-me-down suits without bothering to get them altered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imperial Alex | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Police will man four check-in points for stock exchange employees. "The Wall Street action group has a right to peacably demonstrate. The exchange, however, has an obligation to continue operation," NYSE spokesman Vincent W. Plaza said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Protesters to Sit In At Stock Exchange | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Goodpaster for her accomplishments in politics, diplomacy and the arts. "I suspect," said Luce, "that the fact that this is the first year that there are women in all four classes [at the Point] is not unrelated to my good fortune." Luce accepted an engraved saber from ranking cadet Vincent K. Brooks, 20. Brooks is the first black cadet ever to wear the six stripes and star of first captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 22, 1979 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Along the way to the nomination, Kennedy was in constant skirmishes with the fundamentalists and some New York ecclesiastical powers who suspected that the Pope was even then packing his bags. Behind closed doors in Washington's Mayflower Hotel, the eminent Dr. Norman Vincent Peale told 150 clergymen formed into the Citizens for Religious Freedom: "Our American culture is at stake. I don't say it won't survive, but it won't be what it was." Finally, Kennedy had to meet those preachers down in Houston, who asked him to drop by to explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Back Door No Longer | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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