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Word: mauling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pitt's Thanksgiving scrap with Perm State will be televised nationally on ABC, which will pay each school $244,000 for the privilege. The exposure only help national program, and if the Panthers manage to maul the Nittany Lions, their chances for future TV loot increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Majors Success | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

When hockey and football can't seem to crack the old Eli bastion in New Haven, leave the cracking to us, Tom Sanders might tell you. His Crimson cagers did everything but maul the walls of Gothic Payne Whitney Gymnasium with a battering ram last night, strewing the hardwood with shattered Yale strategies and sweeping to an easy 87-65 victory...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Cagers Smash Yale, 87-65; Face Brown Tonight | 3/2/1974 | See Source »

...fans and sportswriters alike there's a rub. The Tigers of Princeton roar, but do the Purdue Boilermakers boil? Or make? Bulldogs or Bears can fight, claw of maul but what do the Ephmen do? Something obscene, no doubt...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Does a Rose Smell as Sweet? Team Nicknames Are No Clue | 1/24/1974 | See Source »

...their bridgehead or, more likely, did not plan to. Except for some armored probes of the Israeli line, which resulted in some heavy clashes, the Egyptians were hunkering down in the desert. As long as they had their missile umbrella, the Israeli air force was largely unable to maul them. That meant Israeli ground forces had to move in to drive the Egyptians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The War of the Day of Judgment | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

Despite the fact that each year the Tigers maul their way through the lambs on their early-season schedule and roar into town anticipating another victorious feast. Princeton has traditionally been declawed, debilitated, and defeated at the hands of superior Harvard boats. The Tigers have not won a Goldthwait Cup since 1957 and have a lot of embarassment to make up for. Since then the title has been exclusive Harvard property...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Lights Tangle With Tigers | 5/5/1972 | See Source »

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