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Word: dives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes left in the game, but it took a last-minute goal line stand by Harvard's injury-riddled defensive line to insure the victory. Playing with five defensive ends in the lineup, Harvard thwarted a Dartmouth "first-and-goal from the three" situation with consecutive stack-ups on dive plays, and finally a Dan Cassidy interception on fourth down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Football Stays Undefeated; Goal Line Stand Clinches Win | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

Leverett led 7-0 in the first half when player-coach Bill Lewis scored on a short dive, with former J.V. gridder Tony Rothschild kicking the extra point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Tacklers Fight it Out Leverett, Kirkland Victorious | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

...Henry's circle of relatives, friends, lovers-and relatives of friends and lovers-expands in this book to meet the need. Pug's immediate family is Navy all the weigh: at the Battle of Midway, Victor Henry commands the cruiser Northampton, while his son Warren is a dive-bomber pilot who helps to wound one of the Japanese carriers in that decisive victory at sea. Son Byron is in submarines. Daughter Madeline is in wartime show business, but she takes up with a young officer who just happens to be working on a Navy effort to enrich uranium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Multitudes II | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Henry Fonda is one of the very few actors who could dive into this two-inch-deep pool of a play and emerge from it with an Olympic gold medal. A frothy freshet of one-liners does not keep most of this stultifyingly shallow play from being poisonously dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: High-Court Hokum | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...defensive play of the game came down in the ninth, with a man out and the tying run at the plate. Following a backward-upside-down-dive job by Lynn in the third, Carl Yastrezemski slid forward, coming down hard on his butt to cut off a potential two-run single...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Rejuvenated Sox Topple Tigers, 5-2 | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

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