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Word: wee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night before it had taken Court a wee bit longer to beat fellow Perth, Australia, resident Lesley Hunt, 6-3, 6-4, but all in all there was very little wasted motion as Court advances to what looks like a semifinal tussle with 4th seeded Rosemary Casals and a finals duel with Billie Jean King...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Hottest Property in Women's Tennis | 4/13/1973 | See Source »

...will force students to go outside to meet their friends after being called from a telephone located by the entry door. What is a minor inconvenience in fall and spring will become a hassle involving freezing temperatures during the winter. The locked door could prove especially bothersome in the wee hours of the morning, explained one prominent clubbie, who often has trouble after a night on the town finding Eliot House, much less his keys or plastic card. No one insinuates that students are unable to endure the irritation, yet the bottom panel of the door has already been kicked...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: House Security: The Other Side of the Peephole | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...HOUR AFTER the Swearing-In ceremonies ended, the Inaugural Parade began. Among the participants were four Pee-Wee football teams, all of which had won divisional championships. "We're marching behind the Texas float, 'The Winning Spirit,'" said Bob Lanham, the group's manager...

Author: By E.j. Dionne and Dorothy A. Lindsay, S | Title: Demonstrators Face Nixon: Two Worlds in Washington | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

Common Trick. In the wee hours of the morning of Aug. 8, the sonar suddenly indicated that something was lurking near by in some 45 ft. of water. After a time, whatever was there disappeared, only to reappear a few minutes later and then vanish again. Rines had his men play a strong spotlight on the waters, a common trick used to attract fish. To Rines' delight, the light apparently had an effect on whatever was in the loch; the sonar resumed its odd tracings. The evidence, which was examined by experts in sonar at M.I.T., Raytheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Myth or Monster? | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...take so well to being a ham?" a reporter inquired of Robert Grovesner Gardner. "Simple," he replied. "Some go ham. We go proscuito." As he skated off he was heard to mutter. "Ten pig wedding, five pig funeral, with five pounds of bacon cleared." Then this little proscuito went wee, wee, wee all the way home...

Author: By Tina Rathborns, | Title: Entr'acte | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

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