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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somebody popped the ball up behind second base. I went back for it, and all of a sudden, I heard Enos Slaughter call me off the ball. I got out of the way and let him catch it. It was thrill enough just to be called off by a guy like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baltimore's Soft-Shelled Crab | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...going to be in the lineup against Tiant when I got this little guy who hits his junk for about .420." The result is a wildly varying series of batting orders and, Weaver swears before each game, lineups certain to "hit this bum about four times out often." In the words of Rightfielder Singleton: "We call it going to the books, as in, 'He went to the books on you, and you get a day off.' " One additional advantage: no one languishes on the bench for too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baltimore's Soft-Shelled Crab | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Fiedler's conducting was straightforward and businesslike, a matter of careful reading of a score rather than impassioned urgency. Says Assistant Pops Conductor Harry Ellis Dickson: "He was a very unsentimental sort of guy, and it showed in the music." Yet Fiedler made himself into a national phenomenon. The best-known "serious" musician in America, he was also the bestselling classical artist of all time (over 50 million records). His "Evening at Pops" programs were consistently among the top-rated PBS shows, and one of the high points of America's Bicentennial was a thunderous performance of Tchaikovsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mr. Pops | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...MAGUIRE, Cinetone cameraman, is just a regular kind of guy. He has a dull marriage that falls apart in the usual ways, he's a company man, successful but unremarkable in his trade, and he inhabits that most middle class and homogeneous of all countries, Australia...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Between the Idea and the Reality | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...limit himself to ordinary heterosexual acts with Lady C. The difficulty with such speculation is that the term latent covers a long and slippery gradient. One might just as casually assume latent homosexual content in the movie Coming Home, that contemporary switch on Lady Chatterley in which the guy in the wheelchair gets the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Second Opinions | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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