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Word: guying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here Reardon finally mentioned a coach--Frank McLaughlin--"an aggressive guy we brought in from Notre Dame." He discussed the basketball banquet at Quincy Market, where Reardon announced that about $1 million of the projected $2.5 million needed for a new 3500-seat facility was already in the coffers. He even talked about how former Marquette coach (now NBC commentator) Al McGuire had publicly berated him (on behalf of friend McLaughlin) for the small number of seats, and how President Bok had put a napkin in front of his face at the remark...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Beginning and an End | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...friendly debt to, the work of such all-night-joint bards as Tom Waits. Chuck E. is a real character, a buddy of Waits' and of Rickie Lee's who has now become, according to the woman who immortalized him, "king of the sidewalk, the most popular guy on Santa Monica Boulevard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Duchess of Coolsville | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

Davidson will need all his skills and then some against the Canadiens, who have won the Stanley Cup for the past three years and, led by the peerless Guy Lafleur, defeated the Boston Bruins in a magnificent, brawling 4-to-3 series. It could be a fascinating duel: the old boys against the new. The revived Rangers have incentive enough. They finally have a chance, as long as the one that has brought them this far, to win their first Stanley Cup since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Miracle on 33rd Street | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...autopsy, it contains elements of every grade-Z fight picture ever made that was not worth its weight in popcorn. Give Playwright Louis La Russo II credit for knowing his Italo-American dropouts, fighters with four-letter mouths. He plants neon stickers on his key figures. The good guy (Danny Aiello) is Over-the-Hill. The bad guy (Edward O'Neill) is Below-the-Belt. There is an English Eliza Doolittle (Margaret Warncke) for whose favors they stage a slam-bang finale. Too bad someone forgot to throw in the towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: T.K.O. | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...resulted in easy Harvard wins, so the whole Crimson squad gathered around the court now in a huddled silence. Roberts served and after an extended rally hit a desperation lob high into the lights. "There's no way you can see the ball in those lights," Chaikovsky said. "The guy hit it off the top of his racquet, and the ball landed about four courts down...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: An Unlikely Hero | 5/15/1979 | See Source »

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