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Word: jock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each of the corpora cavernosa. Another technique is to implant only one rod between the two structures. The most popular device, developed in 1972 by Urologists Michael Small and Hernan. Carrion of the University of Miami School of Medicine, has a somewhat inconvenient result: a permanent erection. But a jock strap or tight shorts make it undetectable under street clothes. Some doctors now insert bendable rods that can be turned downward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aiding Nature | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

This aversion to formal dress reflects Gauthier's overall down-to-earth attitude toward swimming--"Swimming is a way of life; no one can have inhibitions in a bathing suit. There are no tweed jackets; you're not a jock or a preppie. You're just a swimmer...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Jack Gauthier: | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

...long ago, Big Jock Ewing looked down his long dining room table and said to his wife, "This family's falling apart. I tell you, it's falling apart." What Jock was complaining about was that there were some empty seats at the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Big House on the Prairie | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...only really decent person in the whole household is Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes), and there must be something wrong with her too. Why else would she be wife to such a man as Jock and mother to such an unwholesome brood? By his own admission, Jock (Jim Davis) made his fortune in oil by dirty dealings, and J.R. (Larry Hagman) is carrying on the tradition by cheating everyone within howdyin' distance. After much conniving, he finally ran Brother Gary (David Ackroyd) off the spread, but then Gary is a no-account drunk and gambler who probably got what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Big House on the Prairie | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...idea for the show, says Producer Leonard Katzman, was to imagine that Romeo and Juliet were playing just-pretend in that tomb and suddenly found themselves in Dallas. Bobby is Romeo, and his Juliet is Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal), the daughter of a man Jock doublecrossed during his wildcatting days. Bobby brings her home to Southfork, and J.R. tries everything but cyanide to get rid of her. He is afraid that she will give Big Daddy - sorry, Jock - his first grandson and thus persuade the old man to make Bobby his heir. His tactics fail, but when Pam does become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Big House on the Prairie | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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