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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most relevant piece of information in that unimpressive pile of statistics is that after two decades of frustration I still use the word "we." And I do so with pleasure. Frankly, I'm not sure why the home team means so much to me. After four years in Boston I'll still check the wire services' one inch story about the Phils before I'll even glance at a Sox score. At Fenway one eye is always fixed on the National League scoreboard. The attachment is probably a part of growing up. For instance, when you are younger...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: 234 Games Under .500 | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

...foreign country, sponsors for the missionaries will be found to underwrite the costs. Kimball, originally from Madison, Wisc., lived in a house in South Korea for $70 a month, a fee that included room, board, and laundry. Stromberg describes the places he lived in Japan with one word: "Dumps." And though the paint may be peeling in his Quincy suite, Petersen says, "It's much nicer than any place I lived in. "One had inch-long termites that flew around the room at night...

Author: By Dennis B. Fitzgibbons, | Title: They Took Two Years to Proselytize, But Now They're at Harvard Again | 10/7/1976 | See Source »

...believe in giving preference to individuals, and I stress the word individuals, who have been personally disadvantaged, who have had to work harder to get where they are," Dershowitz said yesterday...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Court Decision May Alter Grad School Admissions | 10/5/1976 | See Source »

...hate to complain in such an uncontested issue as the inconvenience of buying textbooks on the first day of the term, but your reporter misquoted me in the article "The Crunch Begins," [Sep. 28], if only by one word, and it makes all the difference in the world to what I told him and to the intention of his article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unjustified Ridicule | 10/5/1976 | See Source »

...show of visual games and illusions that opened last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts may not be the most profound art exhibition in recent years, but it is among the most exotic and diverting. It is called "Anamorphoses." The word comes from the Greek roots for "shape" and "again," and it applies to images or patterns that look illegible, mere scrawls and smears, until reconstituted-either by looking at them side-on or by glimpsing their reflections in a specially placed cylindrical, conic or pyramidal mirror. The organizers, two young Dutch artist-scholars named Michael Schuyt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fun-Fair Illusions | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

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