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Word: curtness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yale's offense shone only on a third-quarter drive when quarterback John Rogan hit favorite target Curt Grive again and again towards the Elis' only score. The Elis, who face Princeton next week before a trip to Cambridge, fell to 4-1 in the Ivies...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cornell Stuns Elis, 24-6 | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...infiltrate the Venetian blinds as Harlan, obsessed with finding the person who has been drinking from the milk bottles outside his door, strikes the culprit with a blow hard enough to kill and then hides the body in the apartment next door. The film's moral is as curt and curdled as any in old film noir: Don't die over spilled milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Black Milk | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...materials" on violence against women (and children). Dr. Counter should demand that this documentation be removed from the Harvard University Library and burned! To his outburst about my intelligence and academic training I state that apart from University and field studies in other continents, I have taken courses with Curt Sachs and Margaret Mead, and in 1954 I was granted a US Fellowship. I carry introductions from the International Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and other scientific institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberating Victims | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...purple-clad Crusaders regrouped at halftime, though, and gave Harvard and its dyspeptic fans all they could ask for. The bruising defense held the multiflex scoreless in the second half, with linebacker Curt Bletzer leading the assault...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Crimson Hangs on to Edge Holy Cross | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...happens," Flach says, "what I probably should do is put it in the end zone and down it for a safety. I'm even supposed to try to kick it out of the end zone so they can't fall on it for a touchdown." But Holy Cross's Curt Bletzer fell on the ball at the 1-yd. line before Flach could get to it. "When I came off the field," Flach says, "Coach Restic said to me, 'You gotta fall on that ball for a safety...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Punt for Your Life | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

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