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Word: handedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect a two-run lead over the Oakland A's last week hit one batter and sent another sprawling to the ground to avoid a beaning. Bad enough, but then Home Plate Umpire Rich Garcia claimed that the pitcher had nicked the third hitter on the hand. In a flash of anger, the manager of the Baltimore Orioles came bellowing out of the dugout. "I heard wood...

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

...around water heaters; he was fired for trying to organize a union. Later he went to work for 75? an hour at the Chrysler De Soto plant, but left the shop floor to become a union staffer in 1947 and, shortly thereafter, one of Walter Reuther's right-hand men. When Reuther died in 1970, Fraser competed closely with Leonard Woodcock for the presidency. Woodcock won a narrow majority in the U.A.W. vote board; Fraser withdrew and urged that the election be made unanimous. That gracious gesture perhaps ensured his own election to the $59,000 post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fraser Goes into High Gear | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...indeed rare for a father to give his blessings to three suitors in quest of his daughter's hand. But last week the Civil Aeronautics Board granted tentative approval for either Pan American or gutsy little Texas International Airlines to acquire Miami-based National Airlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sky Twain | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...there is a smooth, pro fessional quality to every shot. But since the script and the entire design of the pro duction are aimed at stressing the roman tic at the expense of the passionate and obsessive elements in this tale, he gets to do only the odd clutching-hand scare shot and a few nicely staged chases. There is evidence- a dinner Dracula gives Lucy that is lit by thousands of candles, for example-that he is capable of much stronger mood and atmosphere. But it is as if someone decreed that this was to be a Dracula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stuffy Nonsense | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...party line on male sexuality is no more convincing. The 1974 sex hand book boasts that 100% of Soviet men reach orgasm. In fact, says Stern, the men he treated were preoccupied with their manhood. Some complained to him of shrinking or insufficiently large penises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sex in the Kremlin's Shadow | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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