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Word: rugs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...viewer everywhere at once. Using zoom lenses to peek into the huddle, or directional microphones to pick up the violent crunch of behemoth meeting behemoth, modern TV crews make the action so real that bulldozing backs sometimes seem to plunge over the goal line onto the living-room rug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Time of the Television Football Freak | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...Taylor. 430 pages. Tre Tryclcare and Time Life Books. $30. From Leonardo da Vinci's arm powered aircraft design to the last entry (Zurich airport) in the book's splendidly detailed Encyclopaedic Index, this is the literary package best calculated to keep air-minded readers desk or rug-bound for weeks. What sets the book apart is not only how much it has packed into reasonably small compass, but the precision and beauty of its illustrations, including galleries of great flying machines from then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves: For $275 and Under | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...descended from John Alden on both sides of his family, was plying Mama with books, flowers and Yiddishisms?"A toast to MGM, meine ganze Mishpocheh [all my family]." In 1956 the couple were married in Estelle Liebling's living room, standing on the same spot on the rug where Bubbles had stood for so many vocal lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beverly Sills: The Fastest Voice Alive | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

...added this slender volume of eleven essays of French, English and American Proustians collected by English Biographer and Critic Peter Quennell. The book is splendidly illustrated with a variety of period images ranging from lady bicyclists to Sarah Bernhardt reclining amid pillows, fringes and a polar bear rug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marcel's Wave | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...that Bob Blackman has left Dartmouth, along with 26 lettermen, most prognosticators expect Dartmouth to win its games by respectably close scores, and perhaps even lose a game or two. However, when the Big Green Indians pour into Cambridge to drink your beer and puke on your rug on October 23, don't expect them to be any less arrogant than they usually are. Not surprisingly, the Indians, supposedly lacking depth this year, have dredged up a sensational second string back named Rick Klupchak, who gained 134 yards in 12 carries against U. Mass Next week, it will probably...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Crimson Ivy League Football Preview | 10/1/1971 | See Source »

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