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Word: pearled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barring any miracles, the NBA's first merger season has been anti-climactic to say the least. The good teams are not exciting (Sorry, George and Dr. J.) and the exciting teams are not good (you're looking a little tarnished, Pearl...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Generally Speaking, In Particular... | 3/15/1977 | See Source »

...spectators in New York's Madison Square Garden learned this lesson last Thursday night when Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, who has been playing basketball since his embryonic stage, became "confused" and sank a seven-foot jump shot into the wrong basket just as the game ended. So what, you ask, as long as Monroe's beloved Knicks still won the game? Ah, ignorance is bliss...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: ...But Don't Bet The Ivies | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...places of Africa, none so epitomizes the beauty and mystery of the continent as Uganda. The poet's eye -or the camera's-rarely grasps its lyrical magic. Winston Churchill visited Uganda in 1907 and called it "the pearl of Africa." There, Lake Victoria flows northward to form the White Nile, whose waters boil over the majestic Murchison (now Kabalega) Falls at the start of their long journey to the Mediterranean. The Ruwenzori mountain range, better known as the Mountains of the Moon, rise to the southwest, while herds of game roam the green plains and rolling hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Amin:The Wild Man of Africa | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

Swathed in yards of pearl gray stone marten and crowned with a purple turban, Elizabeth Taylor rode through the streets of Cambridge, Mass., in a 1948 Lincoln convertible like Queen for a Day. The rubric, however, was Woman of the Year, bestowed on Liz last week by Harvard's 133-year-old Hasty Pudding theatrical society. Recalling that in 1951 she had been voted "worst actress in the world" by the Harvard Lampoon, Liz, 45, chuckled: "They didn't have to tell me." This time around, she received tributes to her "great artistic skills and feminine qualities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 28, 1977 | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Brother Blue furnishes amazing stories, rhymed didactic, but no music tonight starting at 7:30 pm at the nonprofit, collective Common Grounds Coffee House. Teleport or take the Red Line to Central Square, find the 100 Flowers Book Store at 15 Pearl St., walk inside, and you're there. Music on Fridays and Sundays only; this week it's Dean McGraw with folk and blues from 8:30 to 11:00 pm on Friday, and "open music"--something like open book, I understand, but no molecular models or calculators allowed--on Sunday from 3:00 pm to closing. Call...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: FOLK | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

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