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Word: raved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large the roster that played to rave reviews last year remained the same. Rico Petrocelli belted out three hits and the outfield trio of Jim Rice, Freddy Lynn and Dwight Evans combined for a melody of five hits (three of them for extra bases), as the offense that appeared dormant in Baltimore emerged from its winter hibernation...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Red Sox Rally to Home Opener Victory | 4/14/1976 | See Source »

First Victory. Before the curtain came down on the Rosi show, Dorothy Hamill, 19, opened to rave reviews back in Innsbruck. Her undoing in previous world competitions had always been the compulsory figures. In Innsbruck, though, Dorothy mastered the formal circles and finished second, ahead of her arch rival, Diane de Leeuw, 20. The reason: six months ago her coach Carlo Fassi, who also guided John Curry to victory (see box), reluctantly decided his own design of blades did not suit Dorothy and switched her to a flatter blade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stealing the Show in Innsbruck | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

Iolanthe is as good as this Henry IV was bad, and a reviewer need not be in his dotage to rave about it. Increasingly, Iolanthe seems to be the favorite work of most Gilbert & Sullivan fanciers. Those who like the gentle, submarine beauty of Sullivan's music claim the best of that is here; others who prefer his loud, brass musical parodies consider the finest of them to be songs like "Bow, bow ye lower middle classes" and "When all night long a chap remains." Those who love the way Gilbert's characters take an inherently silly contradiction and straight...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: G & S Without Peers | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

...which received a rave review in the Confidential Guide to Courses at Harvard and Radcliffe and requires only a ten-page paper and unsigned exam for a student to receive a B, should be second on the list with 620 students, but enrollment was trimmed to 315 by an impartial lottery...

Author: By Victoria S. Steinberg, | Title: Registration Lists Show Ec 10 Enrollment Highest | 10/11/1975 | See Source »

...States. "Actor" is not recognized by apartheid South Africa as a possible profession for blacks, so Kani and Ntshona, the best actors you will have a chance to see on stage for a long time, remain second-class citizens, despite a three-year international tour that has garnered universal rave reviews and the 1975 Tony award for best actor...

Author: By Ta-kuang Chang, | Title: A Wistful Smile and a Pucker | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

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