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Word: creeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rowing world this weekened East met West, and contract to what Jim Morrison might sing, on the waters of Ballona Creek in Marina del Rey Saturday, the Harvard varsity heavyweight showed 12,000 California fans lining the banks that, at least in crew, the East is the best...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Heavies Top UCLA, Set for Sprints | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

Freshman goalie Grant Blair of Stoney Creek, Ontario and Thayer Hall was named the George Percy Award as the team's Rookie of the Year. Blair, who was selected Second Team All Ivy as well as that league's Rookie of the Year in addition to making the All New England team and the All New England Rookie of the Year, had the lowest goals-against average in the ECAC with a 2.71 average and a 90.6 save percentage. He had a 2.74 goals-against average in 26 overall games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Code Named Hockey Captain | 4/21/1983 | See Source »

...There is not a filling station in Orange or Chatham County that does not have a better bathroom. It is plainer than an old shoe." Beyond that, the Landmark went on to insinuate that the management of the News & Observer has been known to "push biddies in the creek." Windsor admits he made up this heinous crime, drowning chicks, but says he was sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Beware of Falling Cows | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...surpluses, and it should help the farmer by removing the glut that has caused prices to plunge. But where does it leave the marketers of such items as fertilizer and farm equipment, already suffering from depressed sales because of the recession? As they say on the farm, up the creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting PIK-ed to Pieces:Federal Payment-in-Kind Program | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...death in his bedroom when a 300-ft.-wide wall of mud swept down a hillside and crashed into his parents' Clear Lake home. Alviso, a low-lying San Jose neighborhood, was suddenly transformed into a 6-ft.-deep lake when floodwaters overflowed the banks of a nearby creek. Said San Jose Fire Department Captain Jerry Hubbard: "The rain filled Alviso like a bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pacific Weather Was Foul | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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