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Word: whisk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then strolled through Johnston Gate into Harvard Square, a rigid smile on his face, as students pushed around him, yelling their disapproval. They then tried to block the Harvard police cruiser that whipped down Mass Ave to pick up Bok and whisk him away, but were shoved aside by University policemen...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: More Than 1000 Made a Request | 4/29/1978 | See Source »

...including the 14-syllable supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It can set type in any one of Time Inc.'s own 127 fonts, tailor-fit copy to a layout, and draw in boxes and assorted lines. Finally, at the rate of a page every 15 seconds, the system can whisk the whole magazine to our printers in Chicago via telephone wires. TIME will soon acquire yet another computerized device-a Videocomp machine that will enable our editorial staff in New York to see almost exactly how every page will look in the magazine before it is sent off to the printers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 20, 1978 | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter popped into the 2 ½-hour session for only five minutes. As he spoke, a helicopter settled on the South Lawn of the White House to whisk him and Rosalynn to Camp David for the week end; parts of his remarks were drowned out by the roar of the rotors. He urged the businessmen to support the Panama Canal treaty. Commented Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman, who would have hoped for more forthright pronouncements on energy: 'Tm all for the treaty." White House encounter sessions may be important in establishing communication between the Administration and business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: White House Encounter | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...expressing her curiousity. The reader resents, as Mira did, the male students' assumption that she is as free with her body as she is with her opinions. But we are less surprised than Mira when after a night spent dancing giddily in a bar, a friend has to whisk her away and lock her up to prevent a gang rape...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Wring Around the Collar | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...living?" Responding to his own questions, he has his character Shimoda explain that we are all "game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe." Meanwhile, the fun-having author has bought himself an old U.S. Air Force T-33 jet trainer to whisk back and forth between his Winter Haven, Fla., home and Hollywood, to film his Illusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 18, 1977 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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