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Word: balled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room, shots and beers are dispensed to small clusters of men. The room is dim despite red, orange, green and blue lights. Over one end of the wooden parquet dance floor, though, the ceiling is raised a few feet to accommodate spotlights of various hues, a mirrored revolving ball and two suspended slide projectors. On Tuesdays, four floodlights shine down on a 14-ft. by 14-ft. boxing ring, complete with cushioned corners and a taut canvas mat. After a few more boxers weigh in on the thigh-high Detecto scale off to the side of the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Pleasure and Pain from Disco Punches | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...usually fools people by keeping his emotions tightly reined, and he could find no more heady challenge than football. He accepts the frustrations and the sleepless Sunday nights, when he replays a loss so vividly in his mind that he can see every detail: Punter Steve Little fumbling the ball against Dallas, for instance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Testing the Velvet Hammer | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

Ford said he decided to platoon because "Walter (Diaz) and Lee (Nelson) are two very similar players," who like to work the ball up from midfield. Ford says he is looking for "more aggressive" players to complement Diaz and Nelson up front and put the ball...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Booters Shake Up Line, Get Baked, 2-0 | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...ball is fired into the Princeton end and Harvard changes on the fly..." You could almost imagine such a play-by-play account of the soccer team's efforts Saturday at Princeton's Poe field as Crimson coach George Ford went to a platoon system to ignite his beleaguered forward line...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Booters Shake Up Line, Get Baked, 2-0 | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

Then twice in the closing minutes of the half, Yakopec took crosses--a Peter Sergienko free kick and a Dave Eaton chip--and shovelled the ball to Diaz on the Tiger doorstep, whose shots went wide left and over the top, respectively...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Booters Shake Up Line, Get Baked, 2-0 | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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