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Word: grandstands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impact launched Silverstein into the second row of the portable grandstand. Thompson turned the corner to ward victory. He never made...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Different Perspectives on The Summer Game | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

...fresh Florida day in Winter Haven (one of God's waiting rooms), where the old gray heads in the grandstand seem to go back to Abner Doubleday, baseball has gone back to baseball. Last season was interrupted for 50 games by shrill lawyers and labor leaders, and the grace note of laughter never quite returned. Some wondered if it ever would. But the talk this spring is once again of hopeful rookies and aging veterans, an endless line streaming in and straggling out. Born hitters who can do it all and hurt you in a lot of ways. Stylish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Springs Eternal | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...whole-family get-togethers that they are. It's one of the things that reminds the partisans to take the sport a little less than too seriously. The IAB, the ragtag Harvard band, and the pack of little kids who play bumper cars at the foot of the grandstand serve the same purpose...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Beloit Bomber | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...overhead scoreboard and insist that we cannot help deploving more intermediate-range weapons unless the Soviets cut back. Team Moscow will haul out the old launchers-versus-warheads stall offense, arguing that parity already exists and that Washington is the culprit behind continuing NATO-Warsaw Pact tension. Grandstand experts will keep track of SS-20s and Pershing 2s: Time magazine will run charts showing cartoon missilemen arm wrestling or playing hop-scotch--one wearing Uncle Sam's top hat, the other a Cossack's headgear...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Strategic Objectives | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

...balance of payments' or 'If we do not sell weapons, someone else will,' the arms merchants and their government spokesmen are turning the world into a vast armed camp." The long line of weapons that helped seal Sadat's friendship with the U.S. were paraded past his grandstand through the dusty streets of an impoverished country where the per capita income is $460, and 42% of the budget is spent on the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arming the World | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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