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Word: bog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third inning, the Bosox retaliated on Senators' starter Casey Cox, a former relief pitcher. Carl Yazstremski, former kingpin of the Bog Yaz Bread Company, nailed one of Cox's infamous balloon balls into the bleachers in right center field for a two-run homer. The Nats lead was neatly sliced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Stung By Buzzing Nats | 5/25/1971 | See Source »

...past decade, Congress has viewed federal aid to education in three different ways: first as a suspect notion, then as a sacred cow and now as a bog of bureaucratic hobbling. Last week the general confusion left U.S. public schools facing considerable uncertainty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Repackaging Federal Aid | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

...humanities bog down in criticism, history, and scholarly research which are not appropriate tools for education, however useful they are in scholarship. The responsibility for education falls not only upon scholars who have other obligations and are not suitably trained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frogs | 1/6/1971 | See Source »

Hollow Victory. What does Cambodia need to survive? Says one U.S. diplomat: "Time, more than anything else." The current monsoon season gives an added advantage to the Communists, who live off the land and move on foot through the oceans of mud that bog down army vehicles. If Lon Nol can hang on until the rains end in September without losing much more territory, he will have achieved a significant victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Cambodia: Struggle for Survival | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

...line the scriptwriter could give him to scream: "Where are my tits?" There is Raquel herself, who wanders about in virtual unemployment, spouting pendulous philosophy á la Vidal and a lot of pointlessly dirty words. She struggles desperately to parody herself but only sinks deeper and deeper into the bog around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Some Sort of Nadir | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

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