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Word: romp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sept. 23, 1978--The Crimson gridders drop their season opener in a stunning 21-19 loss to Columbia. It is the first victory for the Lions in Cambridge since 1961. Senior halfback Wayne Moore tears through the Columbia defense for 97 yards, including a dazzling 73-yd. touch-down romp...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, Nell Scovell, and Jeffrey R. Toobin ., S | Title: More Frustration Than Elation | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...sounds like a sleazy enterprise, have no fear. Sleaziness has never stood in the way of fun on television. Ike is the show that NBC's Backstairs at the White House so desperately wanted to be: a trashy romp through famous events, laced with unprovable innuendo and raucous caricatures of public figures. As history, Ike is a waste of time, but as a time waster, it more than fills the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Love at War with Ike and Kay | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...best two-year-old colt last year, the horse has rolled up five straight victories this spring, running away from all challengers in the East. All together, Spectacular Bid has been victorious in ten out of twelve starts. In the latest win, last week's seven-length romp in the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland Race Track in Lexington, Ky., the colt was a 1-20 favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Gun-Metal Gray Rolls-Royce | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Carrying a slim 9-7 advantage into the fourth quarter, the laxmen parlayed a late explosion into a seven-goal romp that left the Huskies reeling in their final game of the year...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Crimson Laxmen Bombard Connecticut, 16-7; Victory Boosts Slim Post-Season Hopes | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson play in the New England's next weekend. Then they ride into Princeton, N.J., the following Wednesday to play Jay Lapidus and Co. A Crimson victory would be an upset. But after the 8-1 romp over a Yale group that Princeton beat only 6-3, the Crimson netmen might, like Tug McGraw, be beginning to believe...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Netmen Sweep Singles Battles In 8-1 Slaughter of Bulldogs | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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