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Word: finests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting the puck to the offensive zone against Dartmouth is less than half the battle, for the Big Green has the finest defense pair in the Ivy League in Rusty Ingersoll and Ryan Ostebo. Goalie Tom Wahman may be not only the best in the East, but is such a talented hockey player that he was used last season as a first-line forward. Without plump Dirk Frankenberg to mind the nets this year, coach Eddie Jeremiah has moved the junior back to goal...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Crimson to Meet Dartmouth Sextet In Crucial Game | 2/3/1960 | See Source »

...second Cousy." His set shot is still no match for Cousy's, and he lacks the great man's supremely confident flair. But Cousy is seven years older. It seems only a matter of time before Philadelphia's Guy Rodgers becomes the game's finest ball handler, second to nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Playmaker | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...secure the redemption of her lover. Her singing in the usually static second act was superb; her soprano rose and fell around London's steady tone, shot off in bursts of color, swooned and sighed with a purity that had the audience breathless. It was the finest Senta in Metropolitan memory-and one of the finest performances in Vienna-born Soprano Rysanek's distinguished career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dazzling Dutchman | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...nearly made it. On his second try, he was lying on his back in the foam-rubber pit before the quivering bar followed him down. "My timing has to be straightened up," said John Thomas. But he had proved that he was still the world's finest high jumper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Man | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Even after passing the Rocket, Howe still acted like the most modest rookie on the club. But many an expert regards Howe as the world's finest hockey player. Square and solid (6 ft., 201 lbs.), Howe has a pair of thick, supple wrists that can snap one of the fastest shots in the game (120 m.p.h.). What is more, he is a deft playmaker who is so tough he often takes extra turns with Detroit's spare lines, so rugged a body checker that he sometimes substitutes for a defenseman and comes zooming up ice to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two for the Money | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

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