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Word: watchfulnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...didn't wander the streets mouthing dirty words at 12-year-old girls. He used the words in a nightclub act, talking candidly about sex and about how absurd it was that words like "fuck" and acts like fucking were considered obscene when it was alright for children to watch bloody killings in movies...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Comedian Of Darkness | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...coalition last June 30 launched a genuine grass-roots campaign which targeted some 83 Congressional district. The goal was to get thousands of consumers "to shower Congress with nickels and letters" in support of legislation to create an agency for consumer protection. The drive is the brainchild of Congress Watch, a collection of eight lawyers who operate as Public Citizen's lobbying arm on Capital Hill, and of its director, Mark Green...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Consumers Rain Nickels on Congress | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

Operating on a mere $15-20,000 budget, the Nickel Campaign set up tables at shopping centers and busy intersections across the country. They were able to make particular use of the local affiliates of the consumer coalition, such as Congress Watch's partner in advocating the legislation, the Consumer Federation of America...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Consumers Rain Nickels on Congress | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...responsibility and authority to reform them and then do a better job supervising them. passage of the ACP so that Ford would not have to exercise his threatened veto against the vociferous consumerists. Since the agency is initially budgeted for $15 million, and $25 million thereafter, Congress Watch claims the reorganization will mean an immediate savings of some $5 million per year...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Consumers Rain Nickels on Congress | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...gridders are boasting a big passing game and the number to watch will be 89, Jim Curry, who will be playing his first game in more than a year, after taking last year off. Curry's team mates have been boasting that it takes at least two defenders to cover him and that even then the coverage may not be adequate. Curry's speed and assortment of head and body fakes make him very difficult to cover...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Starting Up Slowly | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

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