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Word: chalke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This year means a great deal to the returning players because they've seen the improvement which continual workouts foster," said . "We don't intend to chalk up a 15-3 record against pushovers. We schedule as many top teams as possible early in the season so the fellas can see new moves and practice them for the big tournaments...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Plunging Into the Front Ranks | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...with anything. Something like Bo Derek Takes Off Her Shirt in Exotic Places would be much more appropriate. She takes off her shirt to swim in the Great Inland Sea, she takes off her shirt to swim with Tarzan, she takes off her shirt to get painted chalk-white by restless natives. And rumor has it that she even took off her shirt to wrestle with an alligator, but, alas, that scene was left on the cutting room floor by censors. She even takes off her shirt during the final credits to wrestle around in the sand with Tarzan...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Take My Wife...Please! | 8/7/1981 | See Source »

Growing light reveals a bleak gray back wall and a spectral frieze of figures who may be inmates of a prison or an asylum. Later they will coalesce into a band of Greek Furies or chalk-faced exorcists, hissing and poking little white crosses at the unrepentant libertine Don Juan (John Seitz). At times, blistering white light rakes the audience as if the entire universe of man merited a third-degree grilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bold Hand at the Guthrie's Helm | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

There was no dearth of seductive offers. CBS reportedly talked to Brokaw about 60 Minutes and its planned, half-hour Up to the Minute, an afternoon news show aimed at women. ABC News President Roone Arledge, according to one insider, "went after Brokaw money, marbles and chalk," in an attempt to sign him up for ABC's multiple-anchor World News Tonight team, which occasionally includes the fast-rising Ted Koppel. But NBC responded in kind. The top brass urged a willing Chancellor to give up his New York anchor position by April 1982, six months earlier than planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: But Tom Decides to Stay | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...School officials cannot chalk up the 1980-81 academic year as an unqualified success. Official publications have focused on the fruits borne from the institution's growth. The predominant concern for many people, however, has been the weeds growing up alongside...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Running America From Cramped Quarters | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

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