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Word: ahead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vegas? What's that?" he replied indignantly. "I make the odds. They listen to me. Come on, tell me. The odds. Just a guess. A long shot. Go ahead. Just a guess...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: It's Home | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

...work went ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: Defiant Mice from City Hall | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Carter's approach to leadership, he has from the start differed markedly from his predecessors. He has been almost as much a suppliant as an authority, a man searching for an elusive consensus in town halls and along Main Street. He has walked more among the people than ahead of them. Thus, there were almost biblical overtones to the scene, described by the Camp David participants, of the most powerful man in the Western world seated at their feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Man Searching for Consensus | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...still be a terror. In a memorable display of baseball theater, Weaver last month waxed so wroth during a fight with an umpire that he literally tore up the rulebook. Recalls Weaver: "I said, 'If the rulebook doesn't mean anything, then let's just go ahead and tear it up.' And I did. Then I saw there was a chunk I missed, so I picked it up and tore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baltimore's Soft-Shelled Crab | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...time I reached my seat, the Royals were ahead 2-0. The top of the first and the Sox were already losing. I settled into my seat down the left field line and watched Remy, Hobson, Lynn, and "the Olde Towne team" go down without posing a threat. The game rolled on without excitement for the hometown fans through eight innings. I was beginning to re-evaluate my impression of the Boston fan at this point. Down 4-2 and no more than a few curses shouted at the umps, only an occasional customary slur shouted at George Scott; echoes...

Author: By Lorren R. Elkins, | Title: Confessions of a Yankee Fan | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

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