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Word: fleetingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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But you can't justify the play of a team that loses embarrassingly to Brown twice and Dartmouth in the season opener. Fleeting glimpses of brilliance have been obscured by serious lapses in coherence.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Second Season' Tips Off Amid Gloom | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

Except for the two World Series weeks, NBC has been behind in the ratings all fall. The only consolation has been that, overall, it has beaten CBS. But even that may have been fleeting. In November, according to Arbitron ratings, CBS was marginally ahead. The new programs Silverman will put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Slaughter on Sixth Avenue | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

We rounded the corner to gate 17 S at full speed, yelling at airline officials and insisting that they hold the plane. We saw flight #34 nonstop to Los Angeles for a fleeting moment as it rumbled down the snow-plowed runway and faltered into the air.

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Snowbound in Utah | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

As both teams went into fleeting moments of offensive pressure, the Terriers used the last half of the first to conduct a give-and-go, 3-on-2 clinic and cop the go-ahead goal at 10:05.

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Terriers Evict Icemen From Walter Brown, 8-5 | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

In fact, Reed is an indifferent performer by American standards and a habitual agitator. He left Colorado 20 years ago, after winning fleeting local fame by outrunning a jackass in a 110-mile foot race. Turning up in Latin America, he was arrested in Chile while symbolically laundering an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Who Is Dean Reed? | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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