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Word: fannings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first woman to give birth while using a pacemaker. She has had eight or ten replacements since her first pacemaker eleven years ago ("You kind of lose track after a while"), and regularly goes partying, dancing and bowling. Mrs. Rogers may well be Zoll's most ardent fan. "Dr. Zoll," she said at the ceremony, "I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Award of the Heart | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

Occasionally the theatrics are improvised: in the 1957 Grey Cup a halfback racing down the sidelines suddenly fell on his face, tripped by an overwrought fan. For the most part, the play is livelier than in the U.S. because the rules are different. The fields are 10 yds. longer and 12 yds. wider, leaving far more space for the running game. Unlimited motion in the backfield makes it harder to defend against the run. The deeper end zone (25 yds. v. 10 yds. in the U.S.) allows attacking teams a chance to run full-throttle pass patterns from inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Canada's Super Cup | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

Says Actor Robert Gulp, a two-time heavy on Columbo: "In a series the one thing that matters is how much in love with the star the audience is; the rest is nonsense." The audience certainly seems to have fallen for Falk. He gets some 300 fan letters a week. Everywhere he goes, he is introduced to policemen who are nicknamed-or call themselves -Columbo. Currently, Falk heads TV Q, the TV networks' semisecret survey of stars ranked according to their familiarity and likability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cop (And A Raincoat) For All Seasons | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...lives quietly with his wife Alyce, an accomplished pianist, and their two daughters in Beverly Hills. A sports fan, he gets to every prizefight and Los Angeles Lakers game he can manage. He plays golf in the low 80s and is a self-confessed "pool junkie" who cut himself off cold turkey a few years ago. "I liked it too much," he says. Now he spends his spare time developing a recently discovered talent for drawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cop (And A Raincoat) For All Seasons | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...against Penn, not Yale, and besides Stoeckel was working on orders from the bench. What is more, a nickname like "Endzone Stoeckel" just doesn't make it. It doesn't have that assonance, that rhyme, that "Endzone Crone" that struck a responsive chord deep within every Harvard fan...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 11/21/1973 | See Source »

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