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Word: aceing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relief ace Bill Campbell turned the heat on against his former teammates yesterday, pitching four scoreless innings of relief to lead Boston to a 5-1 victory at Minnesota...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campbell Sparks Sox Win, 5-1 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...They are leading the league in hitting, home runs and runs batted in. Of the starting rotation - Don Sutton, Rick Rhoden, Doug Rau, Tommy John and Burt Hooton - John and Hooton are the only ones to have lost games in the first five weeks of the season. Sutton, the ace of the staff, like a former Dodger righthander, Carl Erskine, catches the corners of the plate with his curve - and batters looking at third strikes. On the infrequent occasions when the Big Five falter, in motors Charlie Hough from the bullpen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Dodgers: No Longer Seeing Red | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Above all, what gives Between the Lines its special savor is the acting. To single out just a few of the relatively unknown but nifty cast: John Heard has wry charm and a quick satiric intelligence as Harry, the paper's erstwhile investigative ace, who knows it would be as phony to decry his lost innocence as to try to preserve it. Harry's girl friend, the staff photographer who is torn between career and romance, is well played by Lindsay Crouse. Stephen Collins is suitably slick as the ambitious book writer, and Jill Eikenberry makes a winsome receptionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Counterculture Variations | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Princeton's star miler Craig Masback did not compete and the Crimson's ranks were thinned by injuries as tri-captain Steve Brown and distance ace Pete Fitzsimmons were both side-lined...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Crimson Trackmen Upset Tigers | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Shocks and Slashes. All this huggermugger could be indulgently dismissed if it were not for the ugliness and brutality of so many of the scenes. The director lacks the true thriller director's gradual gut-tightening rhythm and the subtle sense of mood that causes men ace to materialize in the viewer's imagination instead of in the special-effects department. Winner goes in for violent shocks to the nerve endings. An eye is slashed and a nose cut off, flesh is seen to decompose, a corpse is eaten, hideous deformities are paraded, and through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hellish Huggermugger | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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