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Word: blurt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's actual 3-1-1 record should be kept a secret. Don't let on to a soul that Coach George Ford's young team has really won more than it has lost. If you should blurt it out to someone who watched the squad struggle through last season, you most likely will draw a few comments like, "That's a good one." But what if he should actually go and check a game out. The secret would be blown...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 10/26/1974 | See Source »

Keating's next job was to get the players' O.K. His first opportunity came during lunch with the players and Bassett. "I didn't want to blurt it out," says Keating, "so I gave Larry the thumbs-up sign. When he didn't see it, I announced that I needed to use the bathroom. There was no reaction. On the second attempt, Larry got the hint and he followed me down the hall. When I told him, he gave me a bear hug." Keating took two more trips to the men's room with Warfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Defection Deal | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...many times have you heard Chris Schenkel blurt out male chauvinist remarks about some guy's date in the stands and follow it with his classic. "What better way to spend an autumn afternoon than with college football and ABC?" I, for one, would have to answer "Enough times to make me sick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Big Leagues at Last? | 11/3/1972 | See Source »

...ripens into middle age, Gibson's bizarre experiences become more public. He conducts an all-night talk show on which his guests blurt out their secret lives. A college professor whose sexual advances were rebuffed by a tough ten-year-old singing star turns to frantic logic: "Helen of Troy was nine . . . Psyche was six. When you come right down to it, how old could Eve have been-a day, two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don't Touch That Dial! | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

Motherless Sons. The most savage sequence is a telephone game blundered into by Alan (Peter White), a possible "straight" who was once the host's college roommate. Each player must dial, and then blurt "I love you" to the person he holds dearest. All the players are stoned out of their minds, but not out of their situations. Amid the four-letter confrontations, ugly-and sometimes beautiful-revelations occur, until finally the game's inventor is buried alive in a landslide of truths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shades of Lavender | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

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