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Word: check (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...check the shoulder injury epidemic, the icemen are wearing a new shoulder pad this year--the "Checkmate." Stone calls the pad, "The thing of the future...

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Checkmating Injuries | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

Freshman year, Robert M. Fox '87 was "red-dotted" at registration. He thought his mother had sent a check, and when he went to the registrar's office, they said they had received his check. It was really that of another Robert Fox, though. "I came within a few hours of having to take the semester off," says...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Meet Your Alter Ego...Or Just Get His Mail | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

Biotti, whose size will add a great deal of presence to the Crimson defensive corps, will probably be paired with Harvard's hardest hitter, sophomore Jerry Pawloski. Pawloski, who played very well in his rookie campaign, is reviving the lost art of the open-ice body check at Bright Center...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Tabbed for the Top | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...want to call the White House to see if the invitation was misplaced, or try the National Gallery of Art to verify whether you are on the guest list for their black-tie soiree. If all else fails, there is probably still time to scribble out a $10,000 check to the United World College of the American West and attend the gala dinner in Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince and His Princess Arrive: Charles and Di | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...Senator. The Disney Channel last season scored with Still the Beaver, an update of the old network comedy Leave It to Beaver, and this month introduced Danger Bay, an adventure series about a family that saves animals in peril. The USA Network has just unveiled its first original sitcom, Check It Out!, starring Don Adams as a harried supermarket manager. And Ted Turner's superstation, WTBS, now has three original sitcoms in a Monday-night "comedy bloc." Cable has long proclaimed itself an alternative to the networks, but a growing chunk of its schedule seems less a choice than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Networking: Cable goes in for sitcoms | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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