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Word: rabidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to the injury situation and the team's unfamiliarity on synthetic turf. Harvard suffers the added problems of playing the match before traditionally rabid Cornell fans and in the subfreezing conditions which are likely to prevail at game time on arctic Ithaca today...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Crimson Plays in Quarterfinals Today | 12/2/1972 | See Source »

...would not play as a pro and took a $2,800-a-year job as assistant coach at his alma mater. In 1959 he joined the U.S.C. staff. One year later he was named head coach. After two losing seasons, he silenced the protests of U.S.C.'s rabid alumni by sweeping both the 1962 national championship and Coach-of-the-Year honors. The first coach to popularize the explosive I formation, McKay has a knack for confusing defenses with deceptive variations on a basic play. One Trojan favorite, a sweep known affectionately as "student-body left" because the entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trojan Tactician | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

...John Lee shoots his footage, Author Shrake captures superbly the feeling of combustible chaos that climaxed in the Kennedy assassination. Senile billionaires, rabid right-wing executives of shadow corporations, cheap crooks, displaced cowboys, and kids who stay well stoned and let it all float right on by, even Jack Ruby-Shrake molds them all into his amphetamine apocalypse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Fiction | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...makes each man a very different type, and he is wickedly on target with both. Birdboot (Tom Lacy) is an expansive, chocolate-munching show-bird chaser who finds almost everything "a rattling good show." Moon (David Rounds) is an emotionally constipated, intellectually rabid exegete; any wispy pile of dramatic dandruff can fuel his fire about "the human condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Spoof Sleuths, Nix Crix | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...rabid Madison Square Garden fans screeched DEE-fense. DEE-fense to spur New York into a ball-stealing frenzy. Jerry West calmly sunk a twenty-footer from the right side, and teammate Gail Goodrich followed with another basket moments later to rescue the Lakers from danger...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: The Once Dependable Lakers Are Dependable No Longer | 5/4/1972 | See Source »

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