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Word: peerless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...just about to introduce the Vice President. They won't let me say but ten words, so what can I say? He's what? You bet he's cute! And . . . what is that? A peerless prince of positive patriotism? Let me write that down. Now I've got one for you­he is the most marvelous man Maryland ever mothered . . . Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States." Through all of this, Attorney General John Mitchell sat on the dais with a small smile on his face. Agnew acknowledged the introduction with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: And Now, the Spiro and Martha Show | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...other hand, is one of the few rock musicians who knows my language." As conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mehta is known not only for his willingness to step in where many Angelenos fear to tread but for his ability to get away with it musically. In the peerless leader of the Mothers of Invention (TIME, Oct. 31), however, Mehta was taking on a man whose main goal in life seems to be to zap the musical establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hit It, Zubin | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

would anyone become a college president? The job requires a peerless fund raiser, diplomat, orator and cop - a man who can tame romantic radicals, soothe rival professors, work ungodly hours and somehow prove his own scholarly prowess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A New Generation of College Presidents | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

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