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Word: bleacher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even everyone on Section 18 agreed that for their tastes Sunderland's portrayal of the "Grim Reaper" was just too frighteningly real as he whisked his sickle through the crowd, indiscriminately lopping off noses and ears and whatever other chaff was unlucky enough to be poking up above bleacher level...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Dake It Or Leave It | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...next to the Underdog) reverberates with the undertones of the heavies, of intellectual riffraff at its most sincere and heart of heart having it outs. Everybody eavesdrops, it is licensed voyeurism. The Window Shop (56 Brattle St.) is an outdoor cafe that provides a front row bleacher seat as to who's who at the Casablanca (where the preppies hang out for their booze). Grendel's Den (on Boylston St. across from the Hungry Persian) is a basement coffee house with great spicy shiskebab, an endless selection of the most select folk rock albums, and some of the most carelessly...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Everything Happens in the Square | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

Varney also added the pro scout to the Harvard bleacher. There were always one or two trips to the water fountain each game to shake hands, smile, and joke about the game with the gentlemen in the fedoras. And at the District I playoffs, the press section was filled with stop watches and movie cameras...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Crimson Nine is Unlikely Powerhouse | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...games. First the Bisons lost their fans, and after playing before 100 fans for a season, they realized it would be cheaper to play on a park diamond. So, they lost their field and played on a Niagara Falls sandlot for two years. But 200 followers sitting in two bleacher sections along the foul lines were not enough to keep the team from heading to Winnepeg for a new start...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 5/26/1971 | See Source »

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