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Word: backups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pierce, who graduated from the same high school in Pittsfield Mass, as Baltimore Oriole shortstop Mark Belanger, wields a glove so dexterous that his coach rated him a step below the Oriole great. Last year starter Corby Saunders and muscle man Dave Knoll are fighting it out for the backup spot...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Freshmen Pump New Blood Into Baseball Scene | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

...Angeles after months of bashing about in planes and buses like a piece of lost Samsonite. Her new puppy Jenny has excavated the garden of her Malibu beach house and needs reasoning with. Her friend, Songwriter Karla Bonoff, is recording her first solo album and needs Linda to sing backup. Her teapot needs to have tea in it. She needs to lie on her beach and let her mind float out to sea. She needs to shop for a dress to wear to the Grammy Awards ceremonies (where she is a solid bet to be named Best Female Pop Vocalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Down the Wind | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...because he refused to go along with the department's "official" payoff system. Al Pacino in one of his lesser roles--lots of nice disguises, a crazed scene with Pacino caught in a door, and the crooks inside pointing a gun at his head with the complicity of the backup officers, more blood than a hospital. Which is, well, maybe your cup of tea--much better to see Serpico battling crooked cops than Clint Eastwood murdering everybody. But the bloody scenes alternate with Serpico's home life, which is just about as boring as your uncle's. Still, great drive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

Then things started going wrong for the Crimson. Cusumano's backup, Bill Snyder, bowed to Mike McLarney, 7-3, Tom Bixby (150 lbs.) got swamped, 11-2, and the slumping Jim Corcoran (158 lbs.) went down, 7-3. The Buccaneers led, 15-5, with four bouts remaining...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Buccaneers Hold Off Grapplers, 21-17 | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...deadly sincerity. There may be moments when he speculates with great profundity and great tedium about every slimydeep secret in Muldoon's self-absorbed soul. Yet there is something appealing about a man who defines his condition thus: "The plumbing of my mind was suffering from a momentary backup and overflow of literary illuminations...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Alley-Catting, God Knows Where | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

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