Word: playground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first round the challenger looked and acted like a playground bully, fending off the champion's dipping, weaving attack by simply shoving him backward with the heels of his gloves. Frazier got off a few of his highly touted left hooks, but Foreman either blocked them or moved inside with jolting uppercuts. Then, in one such exchange, the challenger caught the champion with a crunching right and sent him sprawling to the canvas. Up at the count of two, a dazed Frazier gallantly tried to press an attack; Foreman dropped him again and then again with a flurry...
Residents of New Leverett, Mather, and Dunster vote at the Corporal Burns Playground on Cambridge...
...fails to shoot, adds insult to injury; this is the major emotional crisis of Sally's life, and Morrissey turns it into a farce. Likewise, the constant use of the Motel Lady's physical ugliness as a stimulus to laughter is on a level with the playground viciousness young children often direct towards the physically "different...
Before community interest lagged five years ago, the NNA was involved in the design and construction of Rothlesberger Playground at St. Peter's Field and Corcoran Playground at Raymond Park, and it devised a substitute route for the extension of Route 2 that saved several houses...
...Willi Daume, president of the German Olympic Committee, is "a more carefree Olympiad, free of both false pathos and the fanatical pursuit of medals." Daume and the Munich planners have not wholly succeeded?no one could?but they have come close enough by creating what amounts to a vast playground of fun and Games...