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Word: backups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these five days an untouched colt will accept being caught, haltered, led, saddled, ridden, and will have learned the rudiments of the sliding stop, the spinning turn and a smooth backup in an atmosphere so tranquil and trusting, one has to look hard to see how these lessons were learned. Accused of performing miracles, drugging his horses and hypnotizing them, Ray does quite the opposite. He uses almost no prods or external devices at all -- except for his orange flag, which he shakes at the colt's head to make him turn -- no snubbing post or hobbles. He explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wyoming: Horse and Rider Learn Together | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

With about 20 minutes remaining in the contest Scalise decided to give backup netminder Liz Wald some playing time. The Friars hadn't tested Whitley in the second half and only managed one shot on goal against Wald...

Author: By Arthur Rublin, | Title: Friars Bow to Unbeaten Women Booters | 10/1/1986 | See Source »

Harvard's tenuous 1-0 lead crumbled, though, when UConn forward Steve Rammel's shot eluded Crimson netminder Chad Reilly at 43:53. Reilly, usually the booters' backup goalie, was filling in for first-stringer Stephen Hall, who was out with a strep throat...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Men Booters Conn-fused, 1-1 | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

...gallantly allows to Her Porcinity that if they expose themselves to fans at an exclusive restaurant, "they'll probably climb over me to get to you." Perhaps not. This week Heartbeat, Johnson's first album of pop rock and rhythm-and-blues tunes, is to be released. It features backup vocals by Willie Nelson, Whoopi Goldberg and Bonnie Raitt, who challenged the star. "If you run with them," says , Johnson, "you'd better have it together." He began singing in his uncle's church in Missouri and later got into acting through musical comedy. "I was also writing songs then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 25, 1986 | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...wing ribs in its Everett, Wash., plant for a new Air Force One, a 747-200B that will course the heavens with more range, communication, self-sufficiency and practical elegance than anything else in the sky. The contract let last week for the principal plane and a backup totaled $249.8 million -- a mind-boggling sum when one considers that Teddy Roosevelt, the first President to fly (19 months out of office), strapped himself into a spruce-and-wire rig down in St. Louis in 1910 and chugged over a field at 50 ft., waving his fedora. You could pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Loftiest Chariot | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

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