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Word: hairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...player's ability to perform under pressure, the pressure of having to make a team.all athletes know the struggles against being cut. One such athlete is Scott Malkim, an Eliot House sophomore, who has been living on the edge of the blade, avoiding the fall soccer cut by a hair. His thoughts and emotions provide an example of the tension evoked in the battle to make a team. His words speak for many athletes, and his experiences speak for almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Close to the Edge: Hanging Tough Through Cuts | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...camera zooms in on an athletic-looking young man with wispy blond hair. He begins to speak-and the effort is as painful to the viewer as it is for him "They told my parents I'd never live past three," he says, his face contorted by the struggle to form the words. "But here I am." Pause. "They told my parents that I'd never talk, but I talked at five. They said I'd never be able to drive, but after nine years of training my body"-he pants with the effort of speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Day for the Handicapped | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...heart. Turner has clearly made it in the drag queen biz by the finale of the number, judging by the roaring ovations on the screen and in the theater, and you find yourself somehow sharing Turner's bizarre triumph. He has come a long way from the suburbanite-catering hair salon and the endless hours before the mirror in lipstick and wigs; the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creme de la 'Outrageous' | 9/14/1977 | See Source »

...arrived at his conclusion after matching the behavior of 45 redheaded boys and girls between the ages of six and twelve against that of a control group of nonredheaded kids. Though the evidence was far from conclusive, Bar believes the study points to a genetic connection between red hair and hyperactive behavior. "It is possible," he says, "that the assumed national characteristics of certain ethnic groups, like the adventurousness of the Vikings and the temperament of the Irish, are connected to the high frequency of redheads among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Red Hot News | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...never really changes, and the masses of people milling in and around Weld Saturday night didn't look much different from the same crowd two years ago. The women wore more makeup, it seemed (and of course there were more of them), and the men seemed to have shorter hair, but the topics of conversation remained the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: That Velveeta-Like Sameness | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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