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Word: daves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dupuis and Dave MacLeod will start at defense for the Terriers and if they are in their usual top form, the varsity is in for a rough evening. This pair made the All-East team last year and has played fine hockey all year...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Hockey Team Plays B.U. Tonight; Win Essential to N.C.A.A. Chances | 1/14/1958 | See Source »

...next stage of life for Dave is his strange platonic affair with Gwen French. Gwen is teacher of "creative writing" at Parkman College, where "the sharp vinegary smell of intellectual ferment was everywhere... and the sizzling sound of the frying brains." Naturally, Dave falls into her skillet. He dreams of "a long, rich, exchangeful, reaching out, and perhaps even sometimes touching, making contact, love affair." But Gwen French believes that unrequited love drives a man to ink. Dave's novel progresses to a tattoo of discipline and advice ("Don't complexify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Is a Four-Letter Word | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...thing, it turns out. is that Gwen is a virgin of 35, desperately posing as a woman of the world. In moods of blue solitude, she drags down her poet-father's hidden collection of pornographic slides and projects a few lubricious scenes on the fireplace wall. Poor Dave, the man of "exquisite sensibilities," breaks training altogether by bedding down with a shapeless lump of sensuality from the brassiere factory and later marrying her. Finally, his wife's berserk first husband plants a bullet in his brain. After what Dave has been through, this is arguably a happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Is a Four-Letter Word | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Simon led the riflemen to a 1393 to 1289 victory over St. Michael's with 284. Team captain Lance Fair followed with 283. Dick Murphy shot 280 out of 300, ahead of Dave Mote with 274 and Bill Garrison with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Fencers Swamp Crimson To Open Season | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Dave Skeels at 123 ran afoul of Dave Auble, while Bob Kozol lost to Carmen Molino at 130, and John Watkins to George Willis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Tops Wrestlers at Ithaca, 17-9 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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