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Word: beaching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Button was holding its daily post-beach college party (reservations required), and the participants this day were Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Delaware and Oswego State. The entrants take part in three competitions--a banana-eating contest (the Nat Sci), a beer-chugging relay (the Soc Sci), and a wet tee-shirt event (the Hum)--with one school emerging as the overall victor. Sort of like the Olympics, if you know what I mean...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Reeling and Peeling | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

...spend a weekend at a stately home not far from a handy spy (Jean Marsh of Upstairs, Downstairs). She can prepare the ground for the raiding team, not far from a deserted beach where the kidnapers can parachute in unobserved and get out again, via boat, bearing off their prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Happy Landing for a Whopper | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...March that the slight hardening in the right breast of Eugenie Blaschko was a malignancy and that the cancer had spread to adjoining lymph nodes, they urged her to undergo a mastectomy. But Blaschko, 56, an exercise buff who swims year round in the California surf near her Long Beach home, adamantly refused to let surgeons remove the breast. Says she: "I decided I'd rather live a few years less and keep what I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alternative to Mastectomy | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

Died. Bernard W. (Bernie) Bierman, 82, University of Minnesota football coach from 1932 to '50, who led the school to three Associated Press national championships and five undisputed Big Ten titles; of a heart attack; in Laguna Beach, Calif. The "Silver Fox" of football, shy, soft-spoken Bierman preferred reading notes aloud to his players rather than giving them pep talks, and emphasized blocking and tackling rather than passing. His advice to his teams: "Base your plays on standards most likely to defeat the champions," instead of their actual opponents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 21, 1977 | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Scott can do little with moments like these, but he does wonders with many others. His performance searches out the Hemingway man beneath the macho mask-harsh but affectionate, exacting but forgiving, an aging beach comber sifting through the wreckage of his life for those few irreducible fragments of value that might justify it. He gets a surprisingly strong boost from David Hemmings, the onetime hip photographer in Blow-Up, who here turns in a pungent character portrayal as a local hanger-on equally devoted to Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Big One Gets Away Again | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

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