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Word: jousts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month stint as a guest commentator on NBC'S Today show, and now is said to be a leading contender to replace Shana Alexander as half of the "Point-Counterpoint" team on CBS's 60 Minutes. If she does, she insists, it won't be to joust with Conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick, as Alexander did. "Debate polarizes, and everything I've tried to do is the opposite-to find the connections, not the differences," says Goodman. "Besides, debate is black and white. I'm much more interested in gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Private Affairs | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

High atop the House of Kirkland, surrounded by all the comforts of a modern-day baronet (water bed, stand up bar, powerful stereo) lives the man who will carry the lance in Saturday's joust against Yale. Even if the foe unseats him, his name will still resound like that of a king: Judson Burke St. John...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The Marquis of the Multiflex | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...Jets and the Sharksbattling for Eastern League turf in high stirrups. The war clubs came out and the ball never rested. The war clubs let loose and the Soldiers Field basepaths never settled. And when time and the fates finally called a halt to this nine-inning diamond joust, 28 hits had fallen, 20 runs had scored, and Harvard had beaten Penn yesterday, 11-9, with a final inning choreographed by Jerome Robbins and written by Horatio Alger...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Marshall Clouts HR; Quakers Fall, 11-9 | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

...Medieval jousting, which for the SCA means "sword and shield combat on foot in good fun," was missing from last Saturday's program because combat takes place only during the summer months, Pugliese said. "It's not much fun to joust in the snow," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Relives Medieval Times With Anachronistic University | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...joust seesawed until Bell eventually triumphed 15-13 in the fifth and decisive game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Submarine Middies, 9-0 | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

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