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Word: whole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole life has been a drinking contest. I don't know how to do anything else. My life is a waste. I have to spend my summer vacation returning my empties. No sense doing anything about it now, it's too late to transfer to Harvard anyway. Yeah, okay, I'll have a drinking contest with...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Green With Envy | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

...doors placed at intervals through the tunnels are wired with alarms that sound in the tunnel control room, permitting supervisors to notify the police of an intruder. Numerous "No Trespassing" signs hung by the Harvard Police throughout the tunnels probably disuade few interlopers, but the security system as a whole has kept all but a few from the tunnels in recent years...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Harvard's Tunnels: Notes From The Underground | 10/19/1978 | See Source »

...wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. The whole world is so greedy for more bathtubs to turn off the tap. Nothing could be more salutatory at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Seeing Through the Apocalypse | 10/19/1978 | See Source »

...finished off Chicago. Earlier this year guitarist Terry Kath, one of the most creative members of the group, was playing with a gun that not-so-playfully went off and killed him. Beset at the time by various artistic and contractual problems, the members of Chicago considered bagging the whole thing and ending their joint musical career...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Alive Again | 10/18/1978 | See Source »

...contributor), to a poor attempt at a Phil Spector rocker, called "The Last Time." There's a great orchestral work in "I Don't Wanna Lose You," a fine tune which may do well as a pop single; but the range and uneveness of the album as a whole make it almost impossible to label the work as a success or failure...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Potpourri on the Ledge | 10/18/1978 | See Source »

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