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Word: jacket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small boy hurried through the ticket gate at Harvard Stadium and proceeded to Section 42, Row F, Seats 3 and 4. The man, in his 30s and his best tweed jacket, moved toward the seats instinctively. Why not? This was his 15th straight season in those seats, and likewise it was 15 years since he had sat with his fellow undergraduates, cursing out the season ticket holders and their better accomodations. Now he was drawing the curse. Oh well...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Take Me Out to the Ballgame | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

...alerted the police. Minutes later, two plainclothesmen walked into the restaurant, sat down, studied their quarry for a couple of minutes. Then they rose, approached Stoll and ordered him to surrender. Dropping his hands like a Western gunfighter, Stoll reached for a 9-mm. pistol concealed in his jacket. Before he could draw, he was hit by a barrage of bullets. He died 40 minutes later during surgery. West Germans could not take much comfort from this police success. Stoll's comrades were not only still on the loose but now had a fallen colleague to avenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Trapping of a Terrorist | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...crab would have chosen to stuff himself with if only he had been given the opportunity." He has high praise for the cooking of a Manhattan neighbor and adds: "Alice claims that when we are walking there for dinner she is often forced to grab me by the jacket two or three times to keep me from breaking into a steady, uncharacteristic trot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Galloping Gourmand | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...challenging all that. A short, engagingly boyish virtuoso who has chosen a solo career over an orchestra seat, Stoltzman has an almost magical rapport with his instrument. His recent sell-out appearance in the Mostly Mozart series at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, where he wore a velvet jacket and what he calls his "dress sneakers," turned into a celebration of the clarinet's possibilities. In Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, which he performed with the Tokyo String Quartet, Stoltzman glided effortlessly through long, sustained phrases. He caressed his instrument into whispery trills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Young Virtuoso Goes Solo | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...already resulted in the arrest of one businessman and the conviction of two newsmen on charges of libel (see LAW). Last week, as Second Secretary Raymond F. Smith walked across the grounds of the U.S. embassy, two Soviet policemen grabbed him roughly from behind, wrestled him and tore his jacket. Though the policemen had no right to enter the embassy grounds, it was later claimed that they had mistaken the American for a Soviet citizen Smith was the Foreign Service officer who had been assigned by the U.S. to observe and report on Shcharansky's trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Human Rights on Trial (Contd.) | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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