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Word: classiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind-boggling how after two disappointing seasons, a temporary loss of home ice and a substantial loss of student support, this sport remains the classiest, the most intense, the most invigorating...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Hopeful Icemen Open at Dartmouth Tonight | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...Paper Chase (Sept. 9, CBS, 8 p.m.). All summer CBS has been touting The Paper Chase as its classiest new program. One can see why. Well acted and produced, this series has a highbrow setting (a law school), a prestigious star (John Houseman) and harpsichord music on the soundtrack. As if all this were not proof enough of culture, the first episode contains not one but two 25? words: "contradistinction" and "propitious." PBS would kill to have a show like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1978-79 Season: I | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...enough to thrill every mother (and every mother's daughter) in the entire United Kingdom, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, is also heir to the classiest preserve of royal pomp and privilege left on earth: the British throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Man Who Will Be King | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...lauding her sleek, faithful, potent Excalibur, which to anyone not hopelessly besotted with Arthurian lore means an automobile. Not just any automobile, but one of the classiest, flashiest chariots to make the scene since the fall of Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Autos That Make the Statusphere | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...watch the Mets, unless you're at Shea with a couple of sixpacks of Rheingold. Do shed a tear for Jerry Koosman, one of the classiest guys in sports...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Play Ball! Pro Baseball Dusts Off This Week | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

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