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Word: flea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year, when Dennis Dunn threw to Stratton behind the line, the Crimson defense did not collapse. "It was the flea-flicker like they did last year. We thought they might try something. As soon as Stratton took a step back, I just went deep," Coppinger said...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Defense Outshines Yale's Vaulted Unit | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...This is outrageous. It's like trying to kill a flea with a machine gun," Dibner said yesterday. He said that one day during the clerical workers' strike he held classes off-campus at the regular time...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: B.U. Takes Steps to Fire or Suspend Six Activist Professors With Tenure | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...highest-paid star; in Capri, Italy. Born Grace Stansfield in the mill town of Rochdale, she sang at age eight in the local cinema. Though never a beauty and hardly a diva, she set music halls roaring in the '20s with her cheeky Lancastrian banter, stouthearted warbling and flea-scratching, "low-but-clean" brand of clowning. Her 1931 film debut in Sally in Our Alley gave her a theme song, Sally, and endeared her to all England as "Our Gracie." During World War II she toured wherever there were Allied troops and then raised $1 million for British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Flea markets are flourishing partly because they seldom charge taxes. Barter clubs are also springing up fast, particularly in the West. The clubs offer swap deals on a vast array of goods and issue checks" for services. A gynecologist, for example, may cash his "check" with a mortician. The members of the clubs claim that their transactions do not represent sales and thus are not subject to taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Take Cash and Skip the Tax | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...about this guy who takes the name of Sam Marlowe (clever, huh?), gets his puss fixed to look like the one and only, and becomes a private dick in Hollywood. Hires a secretary who could stop traffic on Sunset but has the brains of a flea, tangles with a midget, finds a stiff by the name of Horst Borsht, and runs into a Nazi. You know, the usual job. This dead ringer has played Bogie in tube spots for Ford and Gillette, trench coat and all. He's 39, and not bad for a beginner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 11, 1979 | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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