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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drop by, and sends the fellows out on their own hustings, mostly to lecture at the three universities in the neighborhood: Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State. Then he taps out a memo: "Lost. Alice has asked us all to check whether her thin black-handled Henckels knife went home by mistake on a cake platter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Corn Bread and Great Ideas | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

After Moscow agreed to trade five dissidents for two KGB spies in U.S. hands, it was the Americans who recommended that the actual swap be quiet and informal. Following a moderate round of embracing and speechmaking, the dissidents went on their separate ways last week without the U.S. Government making much of a fuss over them. Alexander Ginzburg and Georgi Vins moved temporarily to Vermont, Ginzburg to the baronially fenced estate of exiled Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Cavendish and Vins to the home of Olin Robison, a fellow Baptist minister and president of Middlebury College. Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Atmosphere of Urgency | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...Tuesday Duoc, a former fisherman in Viet Nam, was on Sherm and Maryellen Oberhauser's farm, driving a tractor across the cornfields. Mrs. Oberhauser said their first lunch there went well: "They didn't touch the potatoes, and they looked at the green beans a long time before eating them, but they each had two hamburgers." Donna Knoll, 56, came by with a Vietnamese phrase book to help her new neighbors learn English. Carol Bailey took some of the family out shopping for shoes, and Larry Bailey planned a trip to Fort Dodge to get everybody Social Security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Yearning to Breathe Free | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

Things should be a bit easier for the undefeated J.V. who are the number one seed. After sneaking past Cornell in their first race because of a poor start, the J.V. went on to post victory margins of 11, 7, and 11 seconds...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: It's Harvard, Yale and All the Rest at Sprints | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

Horne did a super job of battling Zimmerman, passing him occasionally, but primarily waiting for the Tiger giant to dig his grave. "The longer the point went the better chance I had," Horne said last night...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Tigers Bombard Netmen in Lopsided 8-1 Victory | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

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