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Word: bettering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mental slump, and that leads to worse." Fisk also said that he will take his sore elbow through the season a "day at a time, because at this point I know its hurt, I don't really know how, and there's nothing I can do to make it better but take it easy and be loose...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Gerbil's Prayer | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

...executed the old "George Scott double play" with startling timing and precision against his old teammates yesterday. While this may delight Fenway's dregs, some of whom managed to turn "Boomer" to "Boomer," it is a sad sight to behold, and an uglier one to hear. But it is better for George Scott and better for the Red Sox, who no longer have to rehabilitate old muscles, but must take care that their new ones stay in shape...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Gerbil's Prayer | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

Back in the Radcliffe gym, Christine Temin, faculty director of dance activities at Wellesley College and a dance critic for the Boston Globe, leads a class in beginning ballet. Faces flicker from frustration to intense concentration, to joy at a move executed a little better than before. Eagerness and optimism pervades: "Don't watch the floor," says Temin. "You can convince me that, even if you're wrong, you're right--if you don't watch the floor." Even before the class ends, students for the next class come in to warm up. One remarks "bodies everywhere...

Author: By Pamela Mccuen, | Title: 'Elegance, Distinction, Aristocracy,' and Variety: The Dance Center | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

...protest us. Next time we'll know better than to pollute...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...them. When this low-life scum begins to dispatch zombies with startling efficiency and even more startling relish, we think "God damn sadists," and then: "Wait a minute--weren't we cheering this before? Weren't we getting the same kick out of vicariously mauling zombies? Are we any better than this low-life scum? Hmmm..." That's called, "the shock of recognition" and I'm amazed to be writing about it in connection with a film called Dawn of the Dead. It's easily one of the year's best movies horror or otherwise...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

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