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Word: romps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white guys are tarnishing the rest of the West's whites. Somebody ought to be concerned with the oppressed and not reforming the oppressor. You can't teach cancer a lesson. But the real problem is that it always seems that America, when it goes on a moral romp, insists that in order for a people to be free they must be West...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: The Big Western Lie | 7/25/1986 | See Source »

James never forgets that baseball is supposed to be fun. His Historical Abstract, a playful decade-by-decade romp through baseball's past, picks the best and worst in many unlikely categories, including the logical selection of former Pitcher Don Mossi as the ugliest major leaguer of all time. Along the way, James explains why insulting nicknames, like that of Hugh ("Losing Pitcher") Mulcahy, tended to disappear in the '40s, how the coach's box evolved as an attempt to reduce violence in the days when baseball was a blood sport, and why the fatal beaning of Ray Chapman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballpark Figures the Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract: Villard; 721 Pages | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...recycled: standards from the '20s and '30s have been wittily reconsidered by Fosse and bewitchingly orchestrated by Ralph Burns. I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' is sung by a judge to two defendants telling an unlikely tale. Everybody Loves My Baby becomes a father's high- energy romp about his infant son. One number is an instant classic: the upbeat Ain't We Got Fun is rendered with icy irony by a prison-yard crew. Their chant is slow and syncopated, with beats of silence between syllables to underscore the sarcasm; their steps are punctuated by the swish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Slick, Sassy, Borrowed and Blue | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...romp over the Huskies, several Crimson players ended nagging scoring slumps...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Welcomed Jolt in the Firing Line | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

Meanwhile, a new craze seems to have afflicted several members of the team: dunking mania. After a long dunk drought, forwards Neil Phillips and Kyle Dodson each 'threw one down' during last Saturday's romp over Brandeis...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Be-Deviled Hoopsters Hit The Road | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

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