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Word: contest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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During one game recently, as the second-place Cubs were battling the division-leading Montreal Expos in the last contest of a four game series, one of these bleacher prophets discovered me, taking advantage of a day off and trying to get a tan while the Cubs and the Expos staged their version of Baseball a la Boring...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: It's Home | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

...score," said a Columbia senior. Others wake up before dawn in cold sweats or were seized with hallucinations. One member of Harvard's class of 1978 tossed on his bed all night before a math final, imagining himself as King Richard in Ivanhoe, doomed to a perpetual spear-throwing contest in which he always had to outdistance his opponents or suffer death...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Foreign Correspondent | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

...flight director" is Dr. Glyde Marsh, an expert on poultry diseases at Ohio State University. Besides stuffing each bird gently into the mailbox, he makes sure that no contestant has been drugged. None ever has been. "Actually," says Dr. Marsh, "I doubt if you could drug a chicken. Their metabolic rate is too high." If anyone benefits from this chicken flying, it is Farm Owner Bob Evans, 60. In 30 years he parlayed a one-wagon, homemade sausage business into a $105 million sausage and restaurant empire in seven states. One restaurant is close by, and visitors eat there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Fowl Spectacle | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...grain for two weeks and then sell it for a dollar. That was big money when people were making ten cents an hour." For play, kids tossed their chickens out of barn lofts to see how far they could fly. From that recollection came the great flying chicken contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Fowl Spectacle | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

Most of the indicted Angels were arrested in a raid on some 30 locations throughout the Bay area. Among those apprehended were the gang's Oakland leader, Ralph ("Sonny") Barger, 40, and his wife Sharon, 29, a onetime beauty contest winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hell's Angels | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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