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Word: quirks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Uneasy about her role in the spectacle, she tries to treat her date with Bobby as a quirk in her career. This week she plays in the U.S. Open at Forest Hills. After that she flies back to Hilton Head for a $40,000 match involving Court, Evonne Goolagong and Chris Evert. Then she is off to St. Louis for a tournament. During the week of the Riggs contest at the Astrodome, she is scheduled to compete in a Virginia Slims Tournament, also in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Billie Jean King: I'll kill him! | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

...appear on the talk shows. Wiggen is to the fictional Mammoths what Tom Seaver is to the real-life Mets-an ace pitcher with all the right media moves who spends much of his time peddling insurance policies indiscriminately to teammates and opponents alike. The only quirk in his character is his friendship with simple old Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Base Hit | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...only now becoming clear, and his Administration gave law-enforcement authorities new access to private lives. McGovern, for his part, had considerable difficulty in appealing to the Democrats' traditional liberal constituency, and may yet be viewed as the forerunner of some genuinely new politics-or merely as a quirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Makings and Unmakings | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...presages decay, and a satanic barber who rouges the hero's face for his final and failing encounter with Tadzio. All are emanations of death, and all are sung with a consummate leaven of evil power by another Britten regular, Bass-Baritone John Shirley-Quirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brilliant Britten | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...middle and long distance runners. Besides Moore, Oxford's Phil Lewis edged Bill McLeod of Yale in the 880 by .9 seconds, finishing in 1:57.8. And in the supposed feature race of the day Julian Goater won the mile with a 4:13.0, .9 seconds over John Quirk. Favorite Robert Steele finished a dismal fourth. Oxford-Cambridge also won the 440 and the 440-yard hurdles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Crushes English in Track | 6/14/1973 | See Source »

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