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Word: rubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undefeated, they were playing Dowling's Invincible the next afternoon, and the Harvard Band was there at Dillon Field House to salute the squad when it came out for its final practice. George Lalich's father had come all the way from Chicago with gangster hats that read RUB OUT YALE, and was passing them...

Author: By John L.??????, | Title: Powers of the Press | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Many have secured me for my recent failures and I would like to acknowledge if not gratefully notes from Steve Shalen 71 and Bob Kamilli A 1969 graduate of Rutgers, who wished to rub salt into open wounds. One fellow offered to bet me on any picks this week but I told him he must be kidding. I predict a perfect percentage today...

Author: By Bennett H, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

...Italian Job, he is Charlie Croker, played by Michael Caine with his bag of standard accessories: cockney locutions, drooping eyelids and acute satyriasis. Charlie uses jail the way some men use their country clubs-to make valuable contacts. Though he is a petty criminal, Charlie contrives to rub shoulders with the larcenist laureate of England, an elegant superpatriot of a prisoner known only as Mr. Bridger (Noel Coward). Britannia waives the rules for Bridger, who affects Savile Row threads, dines alone, and stabilizes sterling by masterminding foreign robberies from his cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Britannia Waives the Rules | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...this makes it difficult for Cunningham to rub out his last man (Sterling Hayden), who lives on a farm and has a disconcerting habit of holding seminars on ethics in his wheat field. Audiences will be kept in stupefying suspense wondering whether Coburn will ever get around to killing Hayden, but by the time just about everybody rides into the sunset on a gypsy wedding wagon, who could care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gasser | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Scared of Daddy. Kramer taped a diary last season, and Instant Replay is more or less the result. He shows that all was not beating and moaning in Lombardi's bedlam. "Tomorrow, I imagine, Coach Lombardi'll pat him on the head, rub his back, scratch his ears, and everybody'll feel a little better," he writes of one player. At other times, Coach leads his bulls in song. All very sincere, all very calculated. What makes the diary interesting is that the author knows exactly what is being done to him, chooses it, and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psyching the Bulls | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

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