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Word: fleetly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Polillio remains modest about his success so far and, with the injury to equally fleet-footed Wayne Moore, his ever-rising status in the Harvard attack...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Polillio: Comet Among Stars | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

...Dodgers got off to a good start when second baseman Davey Lopes blooped a single into right field on the third pitch of the game. With one out, Reggie Smith punched a long single to right, scoring the fleet-footed Lopes, who had already stolen second...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yanks Sizzle Past Cold Dodgers, 12-2 | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Subic Bay, a major liberty port for the U.S. Seventh Fleet, has a permanent base force of 8,000-swollen by as many as 9,000 sailors passing through on shore leave. Much of their contribution to the local economy is made in the honky-tonk town of Olongapo, where the principal commodity for sale is sex. About 15,000 Olongapo residents are registered "bar girls," many of them infected with a penicillin-resistant strain of gonorrhea known as "Viet Nam Rose." According to Navy estimates, American sailors spent $128 million in Olongapo last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Bitter Battle over Bases | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...tightlipped men who grew up in the nearby fishing villages and are now in their sixties. One exception to this rule is a fellow named Norman who Zewinski befriended a few years ago. "Norman's a little borneo," Zewinski says. "He has the hot rod of the boat fleet, a boat called Red Sun. One night we went into a bar with him and he ordered fifty beers...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: 'Ask Any Mermaid You Happen to See...' | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

...mischief, a race of robots has zapped twelve of the 13 planets harboring the human race. Led by a human renegade called Count Baltar, a first cousin to Darth Vader, the robots take off in hot pursuit of the survivors of the dozen planets, who are manning a ragtag fleet hovering around the "battlestar" Galactica. The humans are desperately searching for the 13th planet, a lost, legendary human colony called Earth. Lorne Greene is the wise old man in charge, and Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch play Han Solo and Luke Skywalker . . . oops, Lieut. Starbuck and Captain Apollo. Galactica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Small-Screen Star Wars | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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