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Word: play (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article "Willie's Farewell" [Nov. 12]: this great athlete symbolizes baseball for me and millions of Americans. I saw him chase down a fly to deep center and steal second and third in a game when he was 40 years old. No one could play like Willie Mays. So who's going to begrudge him a few bucks for having his picture taken with some gamblers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Iran's Revenge | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...AMERICAN BAR where they play real rock'n' roll, where the guitarist takes his axe to his groin, wringing out the sound that bends and twists his whole body, jitters his knees and pumps all the life up through his head where it spatters out to the crowd in beads of sweat. The sweat that salts the beers and the crowd sucks in every guitar lick. Yes, yes, yes, they want more. They are jumping and rocking their seats, pounding the table and singing out of key, and they don't want to do anything in the world but listen...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...going to play a game. I'm going to ask you questions, and if I don't like the answers, we're going to beat the hostages...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

With substitutes mingling freely and both teams allowing their styles of play to become increasingly ragged, the lead stayed at about 32 points for the remainder of the game...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Wagner Drops Cagers, 98-63 | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...tempo slowed and the level of play deteriorated during the rest of the half. Scott Rogers' jumper at the buzzer put Wagner ahead at 41-29, the largest lead of the game. It was downhill from there...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Wagner Drops Cagers, 98-63 | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

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