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Word: balled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't accomplish all that by smiling sweetly at the other team. In fact, the Brynteson that sprints up and down the wings, booms crosses and corner kicks in front of the opposing team's goalposts, steals the ball from defenders with crushing tackles and mumbles occasional expletives under her breath during games, is a far fiercer creature than the Bryntson that confronts the reporter on the sideline...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Brynteson: A Low-Key MVP | 11/7/1978 | See Source »

...tireless Brynteson completed the hat trick with ten minutes remaining in the first half. This time, Ferrante crossed to St. Louis near the right post. When a Brown defender broke up St. Louis, the ball squirted over to Brynteson, who slammed it home for the game's final score...

Author: By Thomas H. Green iii, | Title: Women Booters Zap Brown for Ivy League Title | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Hugh Sidey's article, "In Jerry's Crystal Ball" [Oct. 16], has to be a tongue-in-cheek story about Jerry Ford. How could he possibly reminisce about what he would have done if he had been given an other four years? He had more time in the presidency than Carter has had, yet what we got from former President Ford was swine flu shots with paralyzing after effects and WIN buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1978 | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...chair going as soon as possible." At a housing project, a middle-aged black does not answer when she talks to him, then murmurs as she walks away, "Looking good, looking good." She watches State Senator Emanuel Gold playing touch football and gets bopped on the head with the ball. And from the podium at a rally, Queens Borough President Donald Manes says, "She'll make a good Congressman ... woman ... person ... whatever." Replies Ferraro: "I'll take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Is a Woman's Place in the House? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Freudian "Wiener schnitzel dreams." The despair of the title therefore may only have been that of the penniless young ex patriate author who supported himself by giving tennis lessons and no doubt feared that he would have to go on saying "Smotrina myachik" (Keep your eye on the ball) for the rest of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doubled Up | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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