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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shirts are big, very big. The co-owners of a Chicago saloon sold two dozen at $5.50 one afternoon last week. Some of the messages would have disgraced a privy wall, but one of the most popular is squeaky clean: a picture of Captain America emblazoned with the message: I'M COMING, IRAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Schlock | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...idea of using womb sounds to calm unruly newborns was first explored by the British and Japanese but did not hit the commercial big tune until Entrepreneurs Bob Bissett and Marie Shields teamed with Fort Lauderdale Obstetrician William Eller in 1975. Eller selected as their recording artist a nonsmoking, well-nourished pregnant woman, waited until she began labor and then inserted a tiny microphone through her dilated cervix into her uterus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Womb Tune | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...name is Hallie Martin. She is played by Jane Fonda. She is a TV newshen, very chic, and ambitious for a big story, though looking for it in an unlikely place, the conglomerate's annual meeting at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Call of the Wild | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Ball handling and foul shooting have proven the other big weaknesses. Kleinfelder has started various combinations of guards Pat Horne, Stacie McMahon, Nancy Boutillier, Ann Scannell and Frenesa Hall. Nothing clicked until the Springfield game. With third-year player McMahon the only non-freshman of the corps, inexperience remains the easy but accurate diagnosis for the cagers' dribbling woes...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Women Hoopsters: A Team on the Rebound | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

...accustomed to the luxury of a double-figure lead, Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin got overconfident and replaced his five regulars with the second team after nine minutes. Highly-touted freshman guard Calvin Dixon and classmate Lamar Flatt, who is Harvard's one legitimate big man at 6-ft., 9-in., led the resulting mayhem. The subs put the ball everywhere but in the basket...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Crimson Cagers Dump Brandeis, 95-80; Sloppy Play Dominates Harvard Victory | 12/13/1979 | See Source »

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