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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago I went for a bike ride up into the hills with a friend who works in the pasta factory, a man who has mastered the world and mentality of American business. The further one climbs up into the Appenines the less trace there is of modernization, until finally one reaches little villages that have stood since the middle ages. They are as fine an example of balance between man and nature as the pasta factory is of the destruction of that balance. We ate in a little Trattoria where the pasta was made fresh in the kitchen instead...

Author: By Philip Swan, | Title: The Sad State of Arts at Harvard | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

Although the Minuteman went on to win that game, 5-4, in overtime the Crimson booters had the last laugh at the Eastern tournament...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Rolling With Laughter | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

Keller-Sarmiento did come close once early in the first half. Sergienko led the Argentinian sophomore between two defenders for a shot that went wide of the left post...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: UMass Topples Booters, 1-0 | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

...closely the CCA and Rent Control Task Force slates. Cambridge's complex proportional representation system makes it easy to guage slate loyalty. Under this system, surplus votes and votes for candidates eliminated from the race are redistributed to the second-choice candidates. Among Sullivan's surplus, 96 per cent went to other supporters of rent control, an astonishingly high percentage...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Counting Change in Cambridge | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

NOBODY EXPECTED the Eagles to pull this one off. Hotel California, their last album, betrayed a group hesitant to stray from familiar territory, unwilling to explore themes beyond the California fast life, unrequited love and witchy, lying women. And after Hotel California Joe Walsh and Randy Meisner went the solo route, leaving the band treading water in the backwash of the New Wave tide. But somehow the Eagles stayed afloat. Somehow they coaxed Walsh back into the flock, incorporated new themes into their music, and experimented with new sounds. And somehow The Long Run turned out to be a surprisingly...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Where Eagles Dare | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

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