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Word: quirks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...definitive production that everybody has had a chance to see on television, but the Tufts Arena is giving the play a go-round any way. No quarrel with Tufts' choice of plays, but Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock are a very hard act to follow. If by some quirk you've never seen this before, see it now. It premiers Wednesday at 8:15. Admission is $3.50, $2 for students on Thursdays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE | 7/16/1974 | See Source »

...legal process took so long though that third-year student DeFunis was scheduled to graduate this spring no matter how the Supreme Court ruled. To the disappointment of the braced opponents, five of the Justices seized on this factual quirk and declared the case moot because DeFunis' law-school status no longer presented a controversy. The minority contended that the court was really "straining to rid itself of this dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hints on Reverse Bias | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham performs 50 a week (and could do more), many Alabama women avoid what they consider a stigma by traveling to Georgia for a readily available legal operation or even by seeking clandestine abortions closer to home. In Louisiana, because of a legal quirk, only one doctor openly does abortions. But hospitals in both Florida and Texas, as well as a growing number of special clinics, offer abortion services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortion: A Year Later | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...interpretations of other composers' work −notably the Mozart G Minor Symphony and the Bach Brandenburg Concertos. The neglected Fairy Queen-half opera half masque-is perhaps his finest effort: vibrantly joyous, magisterial in its command yet tender in the plaints of the soloists (especially Bass John Shirley-Quirk's Next, winter comes slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pick of the Pack | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

McCurdy will be hard pressed to replace Jim Quirk's 4:07 mile, but cross country men Jim Keefe, Jeff Brokaw, freshman Jeff Campbell and workhorse Ric Rojas will shoot for the low four-minute marker...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Thinclads to Run Without McCurdy's Guidance | 12/4/1973 | See Source »

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