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Word: custered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plump daughter (Deborah Walley) with steely morals, an engagingly nutty teen-age son (Tommy Kirk), and another boy (Kevin Corcoran), 12, whose freckled wit comes forth in lines like ''I know who Napoleon was. He was the guy that had the same trouble with the English that Custer had with the Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Escargots | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...Josephy ticks off his heroes like minutes in the slow countdown of history: Osceola, who fought to save Florida for the Seminoles; Black Hawk, who tried to save Illinois for the Sauks and Foxes; the magnificent Sioux Crazy Horse, who massacred Custer and whose war cry was "Come on, allies! It's a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine Lives | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

Right wing Bill Hitzig booted a hard shot from directly in front of the nets for the first Crimson tally, five minutes into the period. With only one minute left, left wing Sam Thompson scored on a flick pass from left inside Barry Custer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Defeated, 2-1 By Yardling Soccer | 11/20/1961 | See Source »

Four players scored in what was basically a team victory. Center forward Barry Custer scored after only two and a half minutes of play in the first period, and Sam Thompson clinched the game with a second-period goal. After M.I.T. scored its lone goal in the third period, Dave Astor and Ben Heineman wrapped the game up with fourth-quarter goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '65 SOCCER TEAM WINS | 10/19/1961 | See Source »

...city's smog. But in the Los Angeles Times, Sports Columnist James Murray could regard the home team's travail with wry humor. "What was happening to the Dodgers," wrote Murray, "could only be described as a slump if you think of what happened to General Custer as a slump. I have seen happier people on the end of a rope than the Dodgers on the bus ride home. The players even cursed in whispers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Sports | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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