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Word: mauling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FELLINI NEEDED anything to make him hang up his clipboard and maul out his casting book it is Neil Israel's Bachelor Party, a working man's 8 1/2 that within the framework of an allegorical pre-wedding debauchery provides a scary but ultimately redemptive examination of the bases of modern society...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: A Working Man's Fellini | 7/3/1984 | See Source »

...married eight times and ordered at least one of his wives murdered. The Tsar found he enjoyed killing and torture almost as much as sex and prayer. With his sadistic elder son, also named Ivan, he would turn wild bears loose in the public square and watch them maul passersby. Suspecting that the elders of Novgorod were making overtures to Poland, father and son spent five weeks supervising the slow deaths of as many as 60,000 of the city's inhabitants. All along, Ivan felt that he was doing heaven's work. "Having beaten, flayed, pincered, quartered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Butchery | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

Harvard sports fans recognized STEPHANIE WALSH, former women's swim coach, who dropped by to watch the women's soccer team maul B.U., 9-0, October 12. Walsh now sells insurance in Boston for Equitable Life and received "Agent of the Month" honors for September. Says Walsh, who jogs and swims, "I'm happy, but busy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoop Squads Start Winter Workouts | 10/24/1981 | See Source »

...game went into overtime, Harvard huddled before kicking off and Bott outlined two moves to catch UMass off-guard. First, Bott would kick the ball uncharacteristically deep, hoping that a ruck or maul would form before the defenders could run or kick the ball upfield...

Author: By Steven J. Rosston, | Title: Killer B's Take Tourney | 4/28/1981 | See Source »

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