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Word: combo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trailed in the contest by as much as 70 points, but turned it around with a devastating "ceasing" and "log" combination to gain the victory. Williams also pulled out a crushing one-two punch in the third game with "satire" and "teaks." The 66 points from that combo turned it around in Williams' favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Scrabbler Edged in Tourney | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

...their hospitality suites for a little free food and drink and some good conversation. About 5000 people showed up at Senator Bentsen's (D-Texas) suite Friday night and drank somewhere around $20,000 worth of liquor. A party given by the Latino caucus featured a seven-piece combo in green flowered shirts, an open bar, and tacos and enchalidas. The Louisiana delegation rented a room and filled it with tubs of shrimp and liquor. They also handed out colored beaded necklaces which could be seen on many a haggard delegates' neck the next morning...

Author: By Ruth C. Streeter, | Title: A Democratic Party | 12/13/1974 | See Source »

...back lot of MGM. Sometimes in tux and shiny slippers, other times in button-down and plaid, always with a smile, a beefy victory clasp and a quip, he shuffled along to the chants of the airport crowds, the brassy tunes of high school bands and occasionally a dance combo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Long Party Is Over | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

Plus two sticks for a refined imitation of a jazz combo...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: A Way to Rejoin the Ocean | 10/25/1974 | See Source »

...Aaron Copland's Hoedown, a movement from Alberto Ginastera's First Piano Concerto and even Sir Charles Parry's great old Anglican choral song Jerusalem. Also rising on the charts is an LP by a Dutch group called Focus that sounds at times like a combo of English madrigalists. In Detroit this week, English Rock Star Rick Wakeman begins a month-long U.S. tour featuring some unusual sidemen: Classical Conductor David Measham and a 60-member orchestra and choir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Goes to College | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

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