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Word: gorillas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Section 18 rowdy climbed the ladder behind the old scoreboard and disappeared from sight for a few minutes. He reappeared over the top of the scoreboard in a gorilla suit and climbed to the ceiling, to an appreciative crowd...

Author: By Williame Stedman, | Title: Rock Steady | 2/25/1976 | See Source »

Evening its Ivy record at 2-2, Harvard proved about as graceful on the damp astroturf of Franklin Field as a gorilla on roller skates. The Crimson was simply unable to maintain any consistency on offense, before two second-half defensive lapses proved to be its undoing...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Kickers Lose, 2-0, To Strong Penn Offense | 11/1/1975 | See Source »

...first he must punch his way past the man he calls "the Gorilla." Frazier's manager, Eddie Futch, insists that is easier said than done. "Ali's not 25 years old any more. He can only go four rounds on his toes, and eventually he'll have to stand and fight." Perhaps not. "I'll be sidestepping and dancing, pacing myself," says Ali. "When he takes two steps forward, I'll take three back." He also plans to unveil a new weapon, "the acupunch." Not that he thinks he needs it. "Frazier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ali in Wonderland | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...movie is less concerned with these matters, however, than with making bad broad jokes: when some students play hooky and go to a Chicago zoo, a gorilla hurls his dirt onto one of them; on the run from a couple of guys looking to do him harm, one of Cooley's brighter hopes hides out in a bathroom where a young lady sits screaming on the toilet. The movie does have two energetic performances by Glynn Turman and Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, but they are just about overrun. One of the Cooley kids takes off for Hollywood to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: City Slickers | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...proud of whatever he wants, from Hitler to his grandmother. As for me and the majority of Chilean people, we are confident that in the long run "General Pinochet" and the junta will be considered just like another sad example of what has been called "the Latin American Gorilla," certainly a sorrowful stain for a country like Chile that has earned in 160 uninterrupted years the most solid democratic reputation of the continent. Juan L. Sepulveda

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHILE SI. JUNTA NO | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

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