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Word: jaunting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last night's jaunt to the Boston Garden for the ECAC semi-finals was a trip that only eight other freshmen from Brown and Cornell made in this, the first year of freshman eligibility for Ivy League varsity hockey teams. However, the relative minority status of the Crimson three did not disturb their excited confidence...

Author: By William Scheft, | Title: Some Kinda First Season Phenomena, on the Ice | 3/13/1976 | See Source »

...hapless Cornell down to a 27-21 defeat. Winless for the season, the Big Red overcame a 20-7 deficit with two final stanza scores. But Graustein, who had already scored twice and passed for a third T.D., cooly guided the Quakers to victory with a 13-yard touchdown jaunt...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Brown Takes Second in Ivies; Big Green, Penn Notch Wins | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

This time Poitier plays an Atlanta milkman named Clyde. Cosby is his best pal, a factory worker called Billy. With their wives, they take a weekend's jaunt to New Orleans, where they hope to raise money for the Sons and Daughters of Shaka, their ailing lodge back home. Their scheme does not promise success - or an especially funny movie: they hypnotize an emaciated, canvas-backed middleweight contender named Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) to give him inner and outer strength. Then they put their money on the unlikely pug to beat a nasty pro named 40th Street Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Black-and-Tan Fantasy | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...other clash, Dartmouth's junior varsity drove 65 yards on its initial possession for the first period's only scoring. Aided by a 33--yard pass-interference call against Harvard, Dartmouth tallied on a 12-yard jaunt by Frank Wilson...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Green Downs Jayvees, 28-13; Harvard Frosh Falter, 21-7 | 10/25/1975 | See Source »

...return to the White House left him with a case of the intellectual bends. As a friend of David Kennedy, the President's ubiquitous young photographer, Jack met Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, and made his way onto the New York City pop-celebrity circuit. On one Manhattan jaunt, Jack, Bianca and Kennerly dropped in at Le Jardin, a discotheque frequented by gays and in-crowd types. Jack later told friends: "I was dancing with Bianca and a fellow came up to me and tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'May I dance?' I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Jack Ford: 'My Turn to Sacrifice' | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

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