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Word: ol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grab yourself a hot dog and a place in the shade to watch a good ol' game of America's favorite past time. These won't exactly be baseball players and they won't exactly be throwing sliders and curves; instead they'll be "bowling." What you'll have chanced upon is the annual Lowell-South House cricket match...

Author: By Mark Mead, | Title: Annual Cricket Match Set for Sunday | 5/6/1983 | See Source »

...enemies." Hundreds of Southern California somebodies were upset about not being invited to Sunday night's 500-person bash on a Los Angeles movie sound stage. Nancy Reagan was hostess, and the President's pal Frank Sinatra rounded up the entertainment (Ed McMahon, Perry Como). So Ol' Blue Eyes blew up, understandably but in vain, about his exclusion from the Queen's smallish (50 or so) dinners aboard Britannia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Majesty in Mellowland | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

Before there was a "good ol' Mare" on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, even before her role as Laura Petrie on the Dick Van Dyke Show, there were the legs. They were the shapely stems seen in the old TV detective chestnut Richard Diamond, and they were the props that enabled Mary Tyler Moore to get chorus-line jobs on television's Jimmy Durante Show and Eddie Fisher Show. But those dancing days were, sorry to bring it up, 25 years ago. Now living in New York City, Moore, 45, decided to see if she could still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Jan. 10, 1983 | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...first commissioner, the frowning old Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, was sent in from the federal bench to banish the "Black Sox" fixers of 1919 and restore righteousness. His law was arbitrary and final. Kuhn greatly admired Landis. The judge's successor, Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, was a posturing "ol' podner." The man who followed Chandler, Ford Frick, was a reluctant leader hesitant to decide anything. Next came General William D. Eckert, "the unknown soldier," a strategic and forlorn disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cashiering the Commissioner | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

Talk to college students about panty raids at ol Eureka. Do a few innings of a World Series game on TV and ask endearing questions about what a "designated hitter" does and whether it's true that all professional athletes are drug fiends these days...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Just a Guy Named Joe | 10/8/1982 | See Source »

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