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Word: jocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raise money for former New York Knicks Basketball Star Bill Bradley in his uphill fight to unseat four-term Republican Senator Clifford Case. Singer Patti Smith, cavorting in tight silver pants, with an American flag draped over her shoulders, set her sights even higher. "Let's put a jock in the White House," she bellowed. "He's a smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Preaching Fiscal Restraint | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...field streaked into the final turn, he urged Affirmed into the lead, whipping, then hand-riding, opening a generous gap that carried Affirmed to the wire an easy winner. For the blacksmith's son from Walton, Ky., the transition from toddler on the backstretch to top jock was complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Kid Becomes a Man | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...Basketball's my favorite sport, but since I'm a frustrated jock who's not good enough to play, I thought managing would be the next best thing," Welch said, adding that he's felt like a part of the team since the first day he enlisted in the cause...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: The Unsung Heroes | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

...whole half-car to myself. Curling up on a seat (a 5'11" person can curl up on those seats only to a limited degree due to the immobile plastic armrest, cleverly placed to minimize human contact), I began to read a book for Gov 10. Now any jock can tell you that the readings for that course are fairly heavy, requiring a great deal of concentration. I was really getting into it by the time the train wheezed into Route 128, and then the trouble began. A middle-aged woman who looked exactly like Margaret Hamilton flounced into...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Amtrak Blues | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

...lovers are saved by the deus ex machina arrival of Beralde (Eric Luftman), Argan's Jock La Lane brother, who forces him to see that his doctors are charlatans, that his wife is a floozy, and that his daughter must marry for love, not his interests. All this is done with the help of a few tricks by Toinette...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: 'Invalid' Alive and Fairly Well | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

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