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Word: gangly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles Coliseum, packed with roaring, screaming fans watching a National Football League championship play-off game. The star is Jim Brown, once the most celebrated fullback in professional football. But is Brown bucking the line? Nope. This time he's lining up the buck. Aided by a gang of professional goons-Ernest Borgnine, Jack Klugman, Warren Gates, Donald Sutherland-Brown is robbing the Coliseum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lining Up the Buck | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...Rififi, but the resemblance stops there. The first half is a how-to-do-it set piece on the art of robbing a football stadium and getting away with the loot. The second half involves the problem, artificially created, of how to split that loot. As leader of the gang, Brown is allowed to take the take home to his former wife (Diahann Carroll). Enter James Whitmore, Diahann's evil landlord. He suspects what's up, but he also knows what he wants: Diahann. "Please," he pleads. "Please," she responds. When she refuses, he pulls out a machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lining Up the Buck | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

Harvard's rugged defensive line got into action during the next Penn sequence. A massive gang tackle, which almost deflated Quaker Gerry Santini, sent the ball squirming from the pintsized halfback's hands...

Author: By Patrick J. Hindert, | Title: Harvard Capitalizes on Mistakes To Humble Undefeated Penn, 28-6 | 11/4/1968 | See Source »

...Crimson's unpredicted success this year, Neal says, is the result of the team's extremely hard work during pre-season practice and its amount of hustle--which has shown up in the frequent gang-tackles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Linebacker Dale Neal Gives Strength to Stingy Crimson Defense | 11/2/1968 | See Source »

...going to.try the applause on the show! Are you ready, gang? Let's take it! One . . . two . . . three . . . pow! [Wild applause.] Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Yeeow! Oooh, audience, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Announcers: The Specialist | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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