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Word: chores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty members discovered that the only alternative--and the one the University eventually adopted--was to admit 40 per cent more women, they got nervous again. Increased enrollment might mean greater demands placed on Faculty in the form of more tutorials and larger lectures. Greater teaching commitment--never a chore relished by the Faculty--dampened any enthusiasm for expanded enrollment...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Merger? What Merger? | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

Timilty has a Herculean chore ahead of him if he is to pick up the votes cast in the primary for state rep Melvin H. King and school committee president David Finnegan...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A White Knight | 9/29/1979 | See Source »

...official title is King Rama IX. A talented jazz saxophonist who was born in Cambridge, Mass. (where his father was a medical student), the shy monarch travels constantly throughout the country. He personally hands out diplomas to all graduates of state universities and military colleges. That is no mean chore: 20,000 got their degrees in Bangkok alone last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: A Rescue Plan at Last | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...meal supposedly came with bread and butter, except that the waiter forgot the butter with one of the rolls, and the melted butter accompanying the other was cleverly packaged in a piece of golden tinfoil, making it a greasy chore to unwrap. Don't however, fill up on dry bread; you'll want to save at least a little room for dessert, just so you can order things out of the spinning Frididaire...

Author: By William E. Mckibben and Nell Scovell, S | Title: Nice Try | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...have been swimming at the Y." The audience was in a jolly, responsive mood. Cellist Martin Hoherman brought down the house during an encore by playing a few phrases on the banhu, a Chinese instrument with two parallel strings, played by bowing between them. Hoherman was glad when his chore was over: "That technique is like drilling. A dentist should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On a Wing and a Scissors | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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