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Word: legendes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bobbing slightly, their eyes a little glazed. One wore a plain black shift, the other a camel suit and wool hat. No one recognized them, but they were led to a dugout box. The two never exchanged a word, never even a glance, and that fit neatly into the legend: everyone knew that years ago Mrs. Babe Ruth and Mrs. Lou Gehrig had had a feud which split their husbands' friendship. And, the old story continued, it wasn't healed until 1939 when Ruth, in an open-necked shirt and blindingly white double breasted suit, threw his arms around...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Horizontal Pinstripes | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

...kids in Fort Lauderdale, were Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford. Clutching a black cane Toots Shor watched the men on the field. It must have seemed impossible to Toots that DiMaggio was 61, or that Mantle and Ford were entering middle age: they were kids when Shor was a legend. Now that they were legends, and Dan Topping wasn't even remotely related to the Yankees, what was Toots...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Horizontal Pinstripes | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

...greatest thing when a 36-year-old woman can put on the tightest jeans, the skimpiest shirt, play with a gun and call it work." So says Actress Elizabeth Ashley, whose work these days is a new comedy by Samuel Taylor titled Legend. In it she plays what she describes as an "outlawette" in a band of 17 Old West bad guys. Whatever the fate of the show when it opens on Broadway next month, Ashley's publicity poster seems a surefire hit. "A lady in those days couldn't go out and purchase outlawette gear," Liz says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 26, 1976 | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...interest in their anatomy, handled them with dexterity but not much warmth. The affair could come to a smooth ending or a crash landing. However Hughes made his exit, his women-out of either gratitude or fear-rarely said a word about him. They were all part of the legend, and part of the reason that America was fascinated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The women in the Legend | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...entire starboard side (or so legend has it) crabbed and Harvard's "white whale" ground to a half. Coxwain Bruce Larson called for another complete start, at the end of which the Crimson was five seats behind Coast Guard...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Harvard, Radcliffe Crews Win Weekend Meets | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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