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Word: match (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inside of me out." Ranare, who grew up in the South Bronx, came to Arizona a year ago to beat a heroin habit, which, happily, he did. "My idea," he says, "is to work out my frustrations from work and from the old lady." Though the club tries to match fighters evenly, any two people who want to fight each other, no matter what their experience or size, are allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Pleasure and Pain from Disco Punches | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...squad; as Wellesley charged in from West of Cambridge the Crimson women volleyed (and served and hit ground strokes) and thundered at them from all sides, beating them 9-0 and leaving them shell-shocked and in need of many a Florence Nightingale at the end of the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Blank Wellesley, 9-0 | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...only singles player who had any difficulty winning at all, Sally Roberts at number six, woke up after a sluggish start which saw her drop the first set of her match to Kathy Carey, and collected all but two of the remaining games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Blank Wellesley, 9-0 | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...Macheath's other wife. Falk's delivery of the pathetic "Barbara Song" was the best number of the evening. In most productions this is Polly's lament; I suppose Lucy took this one on after Polly got "Pirate Jenny." Playing a game of musical numbers like this may match singers up with the songs they can perform, but it also unties the music from the plot...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Threepennys Worth--Barely | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...week's end the score in the peekaboo hunting match stood at seals and conservationists 1, hunters 0; frustrated by thick fogs and the energetic efforts of the environmentalists, the Norwegian seal hunters had withdrawn farther offshore, possibly waiting for the public hue and cry to die down before making another attempt at sealicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Sealicide | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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