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Word: flashiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston's flashiest, most unpredictable player is 20-year-old forward Ade Coker from West Ham of the English first division. He is capable of suddenly exploding past an opponent and can be expected to try at least one bicycle kick per game...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Old Legends and Rising Stars Hit Harvard; Boston Minutemen to Play Soccer at Stadium With Crimson Alumnus Shep Messing in Goal | 4/9/1976 | See Source »

Greeting Drivers. One of the first and flashiest publishers to seize on the new promotional opportunities was Bernard Geis. He advanced the concept of the book as property into the book as package deal, and he Svengalied willing authors into writing potboilers and racy romans à clef. Incorporated in the Geis Zeit was Jacqueline Susann, whose Valley of the Dolls (1966) was launched with an advertising budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flogging It | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...holdovers from last year. Captain Kevin Carr will center Paul Haley and Kevin Burke, all seniors. Carr is the hardnosed type, and his instincts for being at the right place at the right time are unmatched by any other Crimson player. Burke is one of the flashiest skaters on the squad, while Haley is noted for his hustle and aggressiveness...

Author: By David Clarke and Andy Quigley, S | Title: Hockey Team Forges Ahead Amid Fall Football Commotion | 11/12/1975 | See Source »

...After the death of his wife Martha in 1782, when Jefferson was only 39, he attempted or actually engaged in liaisons with several women, all of whom, as Brodie suggestively phrases it, were "in some sense forbidden." Appropriately, it was in Paris that Widower Thomas Jefferson, 42, enjoyed his flashiest illicit idyl. As a trade negotiator for George Washington, and later Benjamin Franklin's successor as Minister to France, the lanky Virginian fell in love with Maria Cosway, a capricious Englishwoman married to an obnoxious painter and court toady in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Founding Father in Love | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...regular signal-caller. Kelly, at 6' 2", 195, has the best size of any serious contender for the position, can run and pass fairly well, and is probably the most knowledgeable field general. Foster, who split duties with Crone on the freshman team last year, is the flashiest competitor since John McCluskey to challenge for the quarterback slot. The speediest, most elusive runner on the team, he is a superb scrambler and is extremely dangerous when given daylight. But his passing is deficient, and this is a serious problem to bring to a system that will use three receivers...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Harvard Football After Last Year, Nowhere to Go but Up | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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