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Word: flinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Midwest: The Denver Nuggets' shooting gallery of McGinnis, David Thompson, Dan Issel, and new flinger Charlie Scott should outscore and outlast the other entries of the league's weakest division. The Bulls have no superstars, an aging Norm Van Lier, and a new coach in Larry Costello. The Bucks are a year and a center other than Kent Benson away from winning it all. Indiana lost two of its best players (Dan Roundfield and Earl Tatum), leaving none. The Kings finally have all American Phil Ford under contract. Not bad for the worst team in the league...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Little Hoop, Lots of Hoopla | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...book with the subtitle Some of My Best Friends Are People should be flung across the room. The reader is urged to employ this method of criticism with the volume at hand, a collection of Leo Rosten's light essays. Book flinging improves the temper of the flinger, and in this case it improves the book as well. Passions and Prejudices, when it is retrieved and smoothed out, gets down to business and stops apologizing for its intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waxed Elbow | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...ensuing play, the Big Green's Jeff Hickey swatted Colombo's pitch upfield and pounced on it at the 24-yard line. For the first time in the game, enter Dartmouth's bionic flinger, Buddy Teevens...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Bruins and Elis Continue Winning Ways | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...Crimson team moved off to an early 5-2 lead in the opening minutes of yesterday's game, with platter-flinger Wolfe Futscher displaying finely-honed overhead passes to connect for two long, leading goals...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: H-R Frisbee Flingers Unite | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...Ultimately frisbee is an inherently anti-establishment game," Crimson flinger Russ A. Kaphan said...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: H-R Frisbee Flingers Unite | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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