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Word: larking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black skippered the lark in the A Division, with Ogden Ross as his crew; Chris Hornig was skipper and John Ebel his crew in the B Division...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Radcliffe Sailors Win During Weekend Regatta Slate | 10/9/1974 | See Source »

...trip, chronicled by Lipscomb père in Cutting Loose, was viewed by the boys as a lark. "All I wanted was to have fun," explained young Lipscomb. What he got was a lesson in growing up. The boys withstood the ocean in fine style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fathers and Sons | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...rigors of monarchy hardly prepared him for a humdrum existence; so when he was offered the role of stand-in for Sidney Poitier in a movie, The Wilby Conspiracy, filmed in Nairobi and Nanyuki, he took a leave of absence from his company. Patrick emphasized it was only a lark. "I jumped at the offer as something new and exciting," he said in a break between the fights that document the story of a black South African's escape from jail. About the plot, he is enthusiastic: "I'm glad it shows so starkly the evils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 22, 1974 | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...conscientious as I am. Once, though, at two in the morning"--let's say she worked for Holiday Inn--"I'd answer it, 'Marriott Inn.'" And I would say, "Why did you do that?" She'd say, "I don't know what made me do it. Just for a lark, I guess. Want to make the night more exciting. You know what I'd like to do some day? They think we're nothing. We're the center of communications. I'd like to pull all those plugs out and mix them all up. Wouldn't that be great...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: Studs Terkel | 3/27/1974 | See Source »

...restaurants in the U.S., Genesis was primarily notable for offering charter readers two centerfold nudes for the going price of one. Still another former Gallery hand, Photographer George Santo Pietro, 26, jumped ship to lay plans for Coq (pronounced, he insists, "coke"), which has yet another lawyer-on-a-lark (Melvin Belli) scheduled to hold the title of publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Adentures in the Skin Trade | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

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