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Word: deked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stuff thumps the heart of a traditionalist. The organizing principle of the book is an old-fashioned fascination with, and admiration for, the test pilots and fighter jocks of the U.S.'s first astronaut team: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. In addition, the book has a superhero, Chuck Yeager, a World War II combat veteran who broke the sound barrier in 1947 and rewrote aviation history in experimental rocket-powered planes of the '50s and early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skywriting with Gus and Deke | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Anders Carlsson came through two minutes later to make it 4-2, and then Brugman's second, a pretty breakaway deke job, gave Yale its biggest lead and waved "goodbye" to those who didn't know what to feel...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Scores Five in Second, Nips Icemen, 6-5 | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Colgate's Dave Fridgen narrowed the gap to three with a dazzling double deke, but the icemen showed resiliency as Murray registered his second marker to restore the four-goal margin...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Icemen Destroy Colgate, 10-2 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...icemen tallied once more in the final period, when Murray fed Purdy from his own blue line perfectly with a pass that traveled through two lines and a pair of Vermont defenders. Purdy was left all alone to deke the hapless Frost and make...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Explode Over Sapped-Out Vermont, 6-3 | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

...stopped the ever-effective Koch on breakaways twice, the second coming in the middle of the third period, when the Vermont forward's deke-to-the-backhand maneuver could not find its way past the prone-positioned Hynes...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Explode Over Sapped-Out Vermont, 6-3 | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

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