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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming off a two-game winning streak at the close of three consecutive losing seasons, Durst and his teammates will face an expanded schedule next year as Harvard and the Ivies adopt a ten-game season for the first time.

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Durst Named Football Captain; Horner Garners MVP Award | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

Though Remarque came to the plot early, his scenario is now familiar from too many other war movies: a group of boys go from school to training camp to the front lines, becoming men only to die. "You are our iron youth," their high school instructor (Donald Pleasence) tells them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Class of 1916 | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Not only did she not cut her repertory during her years away from the U.S., she has added a new role: the Dyer's Wife in Strauss's Die Frau Ohne Schatten ("At last, a simple human being with every day problems, after always being a god dess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Coming Back for Birgit | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Fouts took over from his dead-armed and ineffective hero in the fourth game of his rookie season, and went on to endure six chaotic years as the best target on one of pro football's worst teams. The Chargers ran through six offensive coordinators in seven seasons, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Redemption of Fouts | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Singer has never had greater command of his material. At times he is the Jewish Somerset Maugham, spinning yarns of jealousy and violence with the detached tone of a narrator who just happened to be on the scene when the gun went off. At other instances he is a Kafkaesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Novel | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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