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Word: nosedives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other than this costly error, the Crimson defense over powered the Terrier attack. Freshmen backs Michael Smith and Steve Yakopec dominated the middle of the Astro-Turf field. Smith, a hard-nosed Englishman, consistently and brilliantly out-leaped his foes, directing the all-important head balls to his teammates. Yakopec...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Crimson Ties B.U.; Sanacore Tallies in 1-1 Game | 10/20/1977 | See Source »

On Dayan's orders, the luncheon was closed to the press. Some reporters tried to listen through cracks in the door, but they were quickly ushered away. TIME'S Chicago bureau chief Benjamin Cate managed to slip into the Blue Max Room's projection booth, from which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: On the Hustings with Moshe Dayan | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

A few years ago that warning, traditionally delivered to nervous freshmen by worldly upperclassmen and proctors, was in vogue. The memory of how city police helped the University administration teach student demonstrators a lesson during the 1969 strike was still painfully fresh. So were recollections of how the Harvard police...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Gorski Left His Marks | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

The space shuttle's historic test began at dawn, when a cherry picker lifted Pilot Fred Haise Jr., 43, a civilian, and Copilot Charles Gordon Fullerton, 40, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, aboard the craft. Two hours later, engines roaring, the 747 mother ship raced down the runway and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beautiful Drop for a New Bird | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Once in Oshkosh, the builder-flyers demonstrated their airs above ground: one man performed slow aerobatics in his Starduster while listening to Strauss waltzes over his on-board earphones; another, goggled and scarfed like the Red Baron himself, eased his bulbous-nosed Der Jager into the friendly skies. There were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Big Fly-In at Oshkosh | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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