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Word: oles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over and have your name legally changed to Vida True Blue. We'll take the name Blue off your uniform and have them use True. I'll tell the broadcast boys to call you True Blue. How's that?" That, said Blue, sounded like ole massa was bestowing a pet name on one of his slaves. He refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Bolt of Blue Lightning | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...University, and went on to get a Ph.D. in audiology. At 36, he became professor of speech at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he was tapped for the Chicago job. "It looked like I was the ideal nigger," he says dryly. "They thought they were getting a good ole Howard Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Intellectual Black Power | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

...Senator Samuel J. Ervin Jr. looks and sounds like the quintessential Southern Congressman. Jowls drooping and eyebrows cascading, he drawls tall tales about good ole boys back home in hill-country North Carolina. In rambling Senate speeches, he quotes the Bible, Jefferson and Kipling; he opposes most civil rights bills and accuses the Supreme Court of killing the Constitution's meaning by "verbicide." But for all his Claghornian pomp and ceremony, Sam Ervin is no archetypal Southern reactionary. He is in fact one of the Senate's ablest civil libertarians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Conservative Libertarian | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...Boston Patriots won the right to choose first. As expected, they picked Heisman Trophy Winner Jim Plunkett, the strapping Stanford quarterback who was everybody's all-everything. Not to be denied in the Year of the Quarterback, the New Orleans Saints then snapped up Archie Manning from Ole Miss, while the Houston Oilers opted for Dan Pastorini of Santa Clara College, a bullet thrower who also excels at punting and place-kicking. Then came the surprises. After a brilliant season, Notre Dame Quarterback Joe Theismann languished until the fourth round before going to the Miami Dolphins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Battle for the Bodies | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...Rival coaches praise his tactical knowledge, his knack for reading defenses, his ability to command "the utmost respect of his teammates"-all highly negotiable currency in the pros, who are quite likely to peg him No. 1 in the draft. The pros are also high on Archie Manning of Ole Miss, 6 ft. 3½ in., 205 lbs. A scrambler in the mold of the New York Giants' Fran Tarkenton, Manning can pick out a receiver in a crowd of defenders and hit him with a pinpoint pass. He has the height to see over mountainous linemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TIME'S All-America Team: Prime Prospects For the Pros | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

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