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Word: mats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really matter whether or not he can take the mat today, since Springfield trots out a sure winner at 190 1bs. in Jay Mulligan. Mulligan and Joe Blatnick, who will battle Kip Smith at the heavyweight spot, are the only significant veterans returning from the Chief squad that thumped Harvard last year...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Crimson Matmen Open Season Tonight | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

...Mozambique border come under attack almost nightly. Snipers so imperil the roadways that many Rhodesian trucks and autos now travel in convoys (see below). According to Salisbury, daring raids by Rhodesian army units into Mozambique earlier this month destroyed six guerrilla staging camps and 70 tons of war matériel. Hundreds of freshly trained insurgents, however, are poised to cross into Rhodesia now that the summer rains have started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Can Anyone Bring Back the Brits? | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...Sullivan was struggling valiantly, but it was clear that his skill could not counterbalance the Man Mountains's overwhelming advantage in strength. But Sullivan got lucky. Just when it looked like the Man Mountain was going to squash him into a pancake against the ropes, Sullivan dropped to the mat exhausted. The Man Mountain, unable to control his inertia, flew out of the ring and landed with a crash, stunned by his own bulk. Not being able to climb back in, the match was automatically awarded to Mike Sullivan...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Who REALLY Runs Professional Wrestling? | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

...Through contacts among intelligence agents in Cyprus, the Lebanese Christians put in a desperate request to Jerusalem for arms and ammunition. By May-shortly before Syrian army units began moving into Lebanon-a regular supply line from Israel to Jounieh and other northern Lebanese ports was in operation. The matériel included not only ammunition and light arms like the U.S. M-16 rifle but such heavy weapons as armored personnel carriers, Russian 122-mm. rockets and at least 22 T-54 tanks captured in the 1967 and 1973 wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel Secretly Joins the War in Lebanon | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...Carib bean island the buccaneers desire to free is shown to be a homosexual with decided S-M leanings. But psychopathology runs against the grain of a free, open form that numbers among its prime attractions the promise of not bothering to delve into such dark and irrelevant mat ters. Genevieve Bujold, as the high-spirited, high-born maiden with whom Rob ert Shaw, as the pirate leader, is naturally expected to carry on a fighting romance, is required to get into a duel with him. Presumably, that is something the athletic and liberated modern wom an can identify with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sunken Galleon | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

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