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Word: war (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Wildcats did not start a player over six feet, they demolished the Crimson under boards, winning the rebound war 43-28. UNH center Karen Bolton grabbed 15 off the boards and tallied for 10 points from the floor as she dominated play in the lane...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Cagers Lose Third Straight To UNH Five | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Sorry. The album does tell the story of Snoopy fighting the Red Baron at the climax of World War I, but we stopped following it somewhere. You've heard it before, and you don't care. Listen to the great sound effects: whole squadrons of fighter planes taking off overhead, artillery shells bursting, Snoopy keeping warm behind the lines with the German frauleins (thanks to Donna Summer here), great aerial dogfights. Like Sensurround, only smaller. And quieter...

Author: By Eric B. Fried and Susie Spring, S | Title: Hark! the Herald Cashiers Ring | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...plot of Lysistrata is one of those simple Greek stories that is hard to forget. The women of Athens and the other Greek city-states, disgusted with the unceasing Peloponnesian War, vow not to have sex with their husbands until the men make peace. In further protest, the women seize the Acropolis for the duration of the war. The original play is rude, even by modern standards, with men walking around with long phalluses and not-so-veiled references to sexual acts...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Pity Aristophanes | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...Star Vida Blue's pitches for drinking milk because blacks often have trouble digesting milk. The commission proposed a truth-in-menu rule that might mean, for example, that no restaurant could offer as Maryland crab any crustacean that had crawled into Delaware. The agency intensified a holy war against breakfast cereal companies; it has proposed breaking them up and banning ads for presweetened cereals from Saturday morning's TV cartoon shows. An FTC-proposed rule warned that such ads were enticing children to "surreptitiously" sneak cereals into Mom's shopping cart. Washington wags quipped that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Natural History (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.95) gives children another kind of reassurance. The terse text and light watercolors examine a little ball called the planet earth, then move closer to watch the interdependence of animals and humans. It manages to touch lightly on all aspects of life, from war and poverty to square meals and love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child's Portion of Good Reading | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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