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Word: bouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really want to go after California with a vengeance, catch Earthquake before the chance is lost. If you don't see (feel) this magnificent schlock, it's your loss. Sensurround--the greatest innovation to hit movies since 3D glasses--feels like a bout on a motel room bed with the Magic Fingers massager. Sure the script and actors are worthless (except for old Lloyd Nolan) but when the Sensurround starts, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. They set up these big 15 foot speakers, see and when it's time for the quake, big waves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

Alicea's stunts pleased the crowd but not the judges, though. Before he started to unnerve Smith midway through the bout, Alicea had hit the deck once and taken quite a few punishing blows to the head and body...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Smith Tops Alicea in Harvard Club Tilt | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

Chuck Wepner, the classic fall guy, managed to stand up for 14 bloody rounds with Muhammad Ale last night, until the relaxed world heavyweight champion calmly decked him with 19 seconds left in the final stanza of the world championship bout in Cleveland, Ohio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ali Ices Wepner in Fifteenth | 3/25/1975 | See Source »

Harvard has won both its encounters with Cornell this season, taking a 4-2 victory in Cambridge last January and humiliating the Big Red skaters, 8-2, at Ithaca, N.Y. in February. The Crimson enters tonight's bout with a record substantially better than Cornell...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Eggert, | Title: Skaters Clash With Cornell in ECAC Semifinals | 3/7/1975 | See Source »

Forbidden Theme. Solzhenitsyn's memoirs begin in 1961, when he was living in the provincial city of Ryazan after having endured eleven years in prison, concentration camps and exile and a bout of cancer. A high school math teacher, Solzhenitsyn even by then had become the archetypal "underground man" of Russian letters. Writing secretly in every spare moment, he had already completed his novels on the forbidden theme of Stalinist prisons and camps, The First Circle and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Fearful that his dangerous activity might be discovered by nosy friends and colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXILES: A Memoir of Repression | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

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