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Word: finest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCann is the one deviant in the Boston jazz picture for the week. Without exception the major clibs have decided to book the finest jazz guitarists playing today...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: Jazz | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

...quarterback for the boys in blue denim was Black Militant H. Rap Brown, 32, now serving a 5-to-15-year stretch for a 1971 robbery and shootout with Manhattan police. Brown's teammates: some of his comrades from Green Haven prison. Their opposition: New York's Finest, who agreed to the charity game at Long Island's Hofstra University in order to raise money for retarded children. Despite plenty of support from enthusiastic fans in the bleachers-including a sideline banner proclaiming LET'S GO CROOKS-Quarterback Brown failed to connect with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 26, 1976 | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...Forego in the April 13 issue very much, but I feel I should call attention to one serious inaccuracy. Whirlaway is far from being the only distinguished name in Forego's pedigree. Forli-Lady Golconda may not be a particularly fashionable pedigree, but it is certainly one of the finest in the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters to the Sports Editor | 4/23/1976 | See Source »

Forli was horse of the year in South America in 1966, and is a good if not brilliant sire; his son Forceten was considered a very good prospect for last year's Derby. Hyperion, Forli's grandsire, is one of the finest tail-male lines in racing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters to the Sports Editor | 4/23/1976 | See Source »

...Finest Hour. With her occasional bias of the 1960s, Kearns tends to belittle L.B. J.'s politics of consensus. But she understands that consensus was needed after John Kennedy's assassination and that Johnson provided it in what was his finest hour. Reaching the presidency on that grim November day was no joy to Johnson, as he explained: "For millions of Americans, I was still illegitimate, a naked man with no presidential covering, a pretender to the throne. And then there was Texas, my home, the home of both the murder and the murder of the murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: L.B.J.: Naked to His Enemies | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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