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Word: matic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stating this, I don't express the fanatical sports enthusiasm of those who play Strat-o-Matic baseball and memorize the statistics of every Major League player. I didn't even know that Dave Rignetti was sent to the last year. I missed, on purpose, the NCAA basketball finals, and really didn't care that N.C. State scored an upset I only watch golf tournaments when Jack Nicklaus is on the leader's board...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? | 4/8/1983 | See Source »

...third annual Strat-o-Matic baseball league got underway yesterday with its first-ever fall draft

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 9/25/1980 | See Source »

...plastics, superhighways and suburban tracts. The entire culture seemed to have teen-age glands. New, unsettling dimensions suddenly opened: the interstate highway system, the picture window, the grainy little black-and-white universe of television. Gas was cheap, and bright big-finned Detroit cars with Dynaflow or Hydra-Matic swooshed Americans up and down the landscape in rhapsodies of mobility, well-being and heedlessness. In 1954, Oklahoma A & M College surveyed its students to ask their greatest fears and problems. The students answered that their greatest worry in the world was finding a parking space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Dreaming of the Eisenhower Years | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

Last Saturday Beebe and her troopers were making phone calls and receiving visitors in a gleaming, air-conditioned office, complete with Bunn-o-matic coffee makers and an offering of Anderson t-shirts, buttons and frisbees. "We work fast," says Beebe with a smile...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Detroit Anderson Headquarters Opens In Backwash of Republican Convention | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

Luckily, Strat-o-Matic baseball is a year-round sport and the 1979 cards are in. Soldiers Field may be cold and wet, but there's nothing but warmth inside when I watch Jim Palmer twirl a four-hitter for my San Francisco Seals, winning 4-1 and improving my record to three of four. Keep it quiet, but I think the Seals have the horses...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Marching in Place | 3/19/1980 | See Source »

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