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Word: cousin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Field hockey's intramural cousin, co-ed football, hasn't been as successful, primarily because both the physical advantages and the experience are on the men's side. Many women complain that they play no real part in a game, and are included merely to meet the female quota required for each match. One anonymous woman from Quincy House recalls a co-ed football game earlier this year: "Of the three women on our team, not once did any of us get to throw the ball, carry the ball, or catch a pass. Not one of us was even thrown...

Author: By Sara Nichols, | Title: A Field Day | 10/25/1980 | See Source »

...candidates related to any former athletes? Yes. Ronald Reagan is a distant cousin of former Cubs and Dodgers Pitcher Phil Regan. Jimmy Carter is the step-brother of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and John Anderson's twin brother Sparky manages the Detroit Tigers...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Issues And Answers | 10/21/1980 | See Source »

Perhaps that begins to answer why this town oozes such paranoia about its closest Ivy cousin. The campus shrieks its school spirit--it doth protest too much in response to imagined insults...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard, Green Set for Battle of New Hampshire | 10/18/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Princess Anne of Denmark, 62, British-born wife of Prince George and cousin of England's Queen Elizabeth II; of a heart attack; in London. Born Anne Bowes-Lyon, she married Prince George, the Danish military attaché in London and a distant cousin of Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, in 1950, after the dissolution of her marriage to Lord Anson. She and Anson had a daughter and a son, Photographer Patrick Lichfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 13, 1980 | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...those who call that stubborn borough's East Side "home." But with Stardust Memories, he has made a film for that lone neurotic New Yorker who calls Woody Allen's apartment "home." It is cold, uninviting and spiteful, a brooding flipside to Fellini's 8 1/2, a masturbating-cousin to Fosse's All That Jazz. It is autobiographical, as all his films have been autobiographical, but Stardust Memories is repulsively self-conscious, full of loathing and self-loathing. Worst of all, it's not even funny...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Lost in Place | 10/11/1980 | See Source »

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