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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very crucial issues of the debate on the worth of such a field. Sociobiologists are not philosophers, or--contrary to their beleif-- sociologists or social theorists. They can search futily for human evidence of their theories, and I wish them luck, but they will never have the final word on the more philosophical questions that are inherent in the debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Emmerich Responds | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

...FIRST (goalie)--"Intense" is the word for the Crimson's junior netminder. First played the best game of his life in holding Penn to four goals April 8; he'll have to duplicate that performance today for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Key Lacrosse Players Today | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

...Linguistic purists in the Pentagon insist that the neutron bomb is a warhead and not a bomb at all, but many military experts classify shells, warheads and other explosive weapons that come down on the enemy from the air as bombs. The word derives from the Greek bombos, meaning a deep hollow sound. In the earliest known use of the word in English, an anonymous translator of a Spanish treatise described in 1588 how the Chinese used "many bomes of fire, full of olde iron and arrowes made with powder & fire worke, with the which they do much harme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Neutron Bomb Furor | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Larry Brown's fourth straight complete game and sixth straight victory of the season was the big word in the first game, a triumph which came neither easily nor normally, despite his nine strikeouts...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Chill Dartmouth, Sweep Twinbill | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...Israel. In addition, it threatens to neutralize the small countries of Djibouti, which recently gained independence, Somalia and Yemen, which borders on Saudi Arabia. The Soviet Union thus seeks to undermine the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran, and justifies their wishes for more than a mere kind word of condolence from Jimmy Carter...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Conflict in the Horn | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

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