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Word: mannings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year's annointed New Big Man is Lamar Flatt, 6-ft, 9-in., 220 lbs. out of Clemson, S.C., another town noted for its hoop proclivities. Allen calls Flatt "a really strong offensive man," on a team that will struggle for every fieldgoal...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Cagers to Debut Tonight | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

Offensive firepower will have to come primarily from last year's freshman All-Ivy swing man Don Fleming, who averaged 11.9 points per game--tops for the team--and exploded for 30 points in the loss to Boston College and 29 in the dramatic one-point triumph over Yale. Harris, 10.4 points per game last year, also will have to score, though his primary responsibility as the team's "big man" will mean guarding players much taller than he, and clearing the boards...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Cagers to Debut Tonight | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...lids get ripped off anything. Strout watches the men--scarcely a woman makes it into the text--who are running things and wonders about them and about what they will do next. The columns are breezy and interesting, 800 weekly words offering a glance at an issue or a man. It is a measure of Strout's talent that he can use that most pretentious of devices--first person plural--and still display a friendly and approachable, yet always impressive intellect...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Eight White Houses | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

What has Tony Sanchez given the world? Nothing but this book of gossip and history lifted from Roy Carr's Illustrated Record, a book that won't give anybody joy or save anybody, a crotchety little book by a wasted old man. I don't like...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Stoned Wheat Thins | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

UMass began the second half determined to run, gun and then run some more. Kleinfelder countered with a man-to-man defense that succeeded for as long as the Crimson played aggressively--about seven minutes...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Women Cagers Drop Debut; UMass Fast Breaks to Win | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

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