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Word: romps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale, strong in all running events, and powerful in the field events, should romp to an easy victory. The real battle will be for second place between Princeton and the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Runners Picked to Win In Big 3 Meet | 2/20/1954 | See Source »

...will be able to concentrate on their roles without having to keep their eyes trained on his baton. There are eleven singers on the tour, and all of them know more than one of the opera's seven roles, and switch around frequently. The result: a high-spirited romp that made listeners from Baltimore to Wichita forget that Mozart was a classical composer and that opera was supposed to be difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mozart on the Road | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...developments in surgery have had such public appeal as the "blue-baby" operation, first performed at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1944. Children born with malformed hearts look blue because their blood does not get enough oxygen. They cannot romp like normal youngsters; many of them cannot even walk across a room without huffing and puffing, and have to spend their waking hours in wheelchairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From Blue to Pink | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Although strained, this tradition of purposive investigation has held until now. But the Senate Permanent Investigating Committee has broken it entirely. As its name implies, the Committee is neither checked by a specific mission nor by the necessity to produce suggestions for pertinent legislation. It may romp through any phase of domestic or foreign affairs at will, calling witnesses whose connection, even with the loosely defined area of investigation, is quite tenuous, and exposing them to a publicity hungry one-man tribunal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Muddied Tradition | 5/6/1953 | See Source »

...Paul's going to romp with this one," Mike claimed. "It's practically a boat race. every form sheet has Omm Paul out front all the way. He's The Clocker's. Delight you know: dollars and more dollars. This one is my Get Even Special for the afternoon...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Improving the Bookies | 4/25/1953 | See Source »

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