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Word: ward (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plunging through a hole, cutting to elude pursuing linebackers, squirming for ward with with the tacklers best of draped around and to him, have Payton earned may be the hardest runner to bring down in the N.F.L. game. "He's just mule-headed," says his mother Alyne, whose oldest son Eddie returns kicks for the Detroit Lions. "When five or six players get him, he just won't give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Running Wild | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

Montgomery Ward has remodeled its spacious outlet in Skokie, Ill., installing new surveillance posts that blend into the décor. Observation towers are disguised as structural supports; protruding mirrors along a wall conceal guards who scan the throngs of shoppers crowding the aisles. Retailers around the country are taking similar security measures. Reason: business is booming in the weeks before Christmas, but so is shoplifting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Tis the Season To Be Wary | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...quality and substance of the drama are contained in the interaction of these four characters with the girls next door. The women include Marcie Braddick (Diana Gamser) an innocent, honest and studious girl from the midwest who enjoyed bake sales in high school, Susan Ward (Victoria Allan), a high falutin' preppie from Milton; and Maggie Cochran (Lisa Beach), an aggressive, sexy wise-cracker. Maggie tells Stanley after he shrinks in tension from her sexual advances, "How do you whistle? Just put your lips together and blow...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: Finding Our Lost Cookies | 12/3/1977 | See Source »

...Death of Justina," a businessman must ask the mayor of his community for a secret exception to zoning laws because his cousin Justina is dying in a ward where death is illegal...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Cheever Reads His Stories And Discusses Their Meaning | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

Among the many useful household items the Coop is selling are Harvard insignia toilet seats at $16.50, "slightly pornographic" Massage Mobiles and imported Kitchen Witches that ward off evil spirits and bad coffee, the household furnishings buyer said yesterday...

Author: By Susan K. Brown and James L. Tyson jr., S | Title: 'Tis the Season to Spend | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

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