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Word: demolishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, the all-star break is over, the American League choked again, and it's back to business as usual for the major-league leading Red Sox. This weekend, the Sox will attempt to demolish some Western Division teams, having kicked ass in the East for the past month. The Texas Rangers will be in town tonight, followed by the Minnesota Twins on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Sunday's game will be on Channel 38, we think, at 2. buit since the Twins, with the exception of Rod Carew, are so bad, this might be your best shot at actually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

...University had planned to demolish the house, but found it more economical and convenient to move it instead, Leahy added...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Truck to Move Prince House Behind Union Dorms June 12 | 5/19/1978 | See Source »

While Laporte's murder completely discredited the F.L.Q. radicals, it did not demolish moderate, democratic separatists?like René Lévesque and his Parti Quebecois. Slowly and steadily, the Péquistes continued to gain ground, helped considerably by the sloppy government of the dominant Quebec Liberal Party. Then came the 1976 election. At the P.Q. victory party in Montreal's Paul Sauvé Arena, 6,000 supporters embraced, wept and roared out the words of a modern Quebec chanson, "Tomorrow belongs to us ..." The message was not lost on Quebec's 800,000 English-speaking citizens?or on the rest of Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Secession v. Survival | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...conference championship game, Goldberg had another morale booster up his sleeve. Since his company had a contract to demolish a twelve-story building in Denver's downtown, Goldberg had the three-ton ball on his wrecking crane painted orange and hung a sign on the side of the building with OAKLAND painted in huge letters on it. A crowd of hundreds gathered to watch and cheer the destruction. The darker side: when a man walked into a bar and turned on the jukebox during a televised Bronco game, he got into a frenzied argument with irate fans, one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Denver and Dallas | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...FIXING THE HOLE IN THE B.U. CREASE--If the refs didn't demolish the tension of the game, the third-period clinic on Open Ice Surgery did. B.U. goalie Brian Durocher tantrummed for nine minutes and 30 seconds of the last period until play was stopped to fix the cavity by the right post of the Terrier cage...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: B.U. Screws Icemen | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

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