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Word: anchors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owner of a thriving fashion firm, an inventor, a rabbi, an actress, a TV producer, advertising and insurance executives, a stock analyst, a nurse and a porno movie queen. Most started off by renting a boat for summer weekends. Then they became addicted, but kept an apartment as an anchor to windward. Then they gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Boat People, American-Style | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...points after failing to score in the diving, recovered to win the thrilling medley relay, the evening's final event. Harvard finished third in the event (behind the Tigers and Army) on the strength of strong legs by Seelen and Mack (45.33 split for his 100 free anchor...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Records Fall as Crimson Takes Lead at Easterns | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...show's gimmick is its three anchormen, Frank Reynolds in Washington, Peter Jennings in Europe (Monday night it was London) and Max Robinson in Chicago (Monday night he did not appear). They anchor the broadcast because, as the advertisements put it, they are where the news is being made. The multi-anchor system attempts to capitalize on the television audience's presumed inability to concentrate on one subject at a time. The constant motion, supposedly, generates pace and action. The idea is a waste--anchormen rarely leave their offices, and their sole purpose is to introduce the film segments...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Toobs on the Tube | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson, however, made much of the lone relay opportunity, with Sarah Linsley, Kat Taylor, Terese Sellers and LeAnne Rozelle (on the anchor leg) finishing in a school record time of 9:25, good for second place behind Rhode Island...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two-Mile Relay Sets Record At Women's New Englands | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...difference in the meet, the Harvard women blazing to the tape to set a new school record of 4:04.5. The quartet of Becky Rogers, Posey Bryan, Kathy Dorsey and Pat Gopaul smoked the old Harvard mark by more than four seconds, Gopaul turning in a blistering 60.0 anchor...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Women Go Distance To Pass Springfield | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

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