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Word: broads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feet tall, weighs 180 pounds, has broad shoulders and a stocky build. Sounds like the perfect guy you would want on your squad in House football action, right? Well, true to his description, he claims the position of quarterback for the Quincy House football team. Something else, however, should be mentioned about this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 52-Year-Old Master of Quincy House Intent on Playing Intramural Football | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

Gwynne B. Evans, Cabot Professor of English Literature, called Levin a "polyglot," with an unusually broad range of academic interests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Levin to Retire in Spring '83, To Leave Harvard in January | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

...time for little words is past; We now speak only the broad impertinences...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Small is Beautiful | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

Discussion will center on broad topics: food and agriculture, energy, raw materials, trade and development, financial policy. Each head of government will make a short speech, and there will also be informal conversations. Instead of issuing the usual communique, Host Lopez Portillo will sum up the sense of the meeting in his closing statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summit: Rendezvous in Canc | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...picture is well made in a broad-stroke sort of way. Director Aldrich (The Big Knife, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Hustle) has never been one to linger over subtleties, but he has a good sense of life on the scramble in the less exalted realms of Middle America, and he covers the action in the ring quite brilliantly. One starts to feel one's own tendons screeching as the ladies apply their holds to one another, and the shuddering impact of bodies flung to the canvas registers in the audience's bones. Writer Frohman has concocted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Soft Core | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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