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Word: ruts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Eric Cutler said, "The girls did not feel they were playing particularly well. We're in a rut. Williams was beaten, 5-2, by Penn so it could be rough for us at Penn this weekend...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Williams Upsets Racquetwomen, 5-2 | 2/10/1977 | See Source »

...possible, therefore, that the show will turn out to be just another passing fancy and not the shape of things to come. Or that it will merely settle into a prosperous rut, another gimmicky private-eye show with a following that keeps it safely anchored somewhere in the middle of the ratings. About all that, it is too early to speak. Right now, the last word must belong to Producer Spelling, in whose voice can be heard television's truest, bottom-line tones. Refusing to argue with the show's detractors, he utters what television people all believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Super Women | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

Golf was played with one all-purpose club until irons--called rut irons--were pioneered to excavate featheries from tracks and ruts. The gutty fostered the invention of the cleek, about the equivalent of the modern 2-iron...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Five Centuries of Biodegradable Golf | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

...Watching the Soviets play gave me some ideas," Taylor says. "It is the style I would like us to play in this country. We're in a rut now, with the pro influence...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Taylor Decides to Leave Cambridge; Will Coach Yale Varsity Next Season | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...feared that he would fall into a rut, by developing his talents to the point where he could write easily, in a fully mature personal style. He worried that "style or technique may be a straitjacket which is the destroyer of a writer. It does seem to be true that when it becomes easy to write the writing is not likely to be any good. Facility can be the greatest danger in the world...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Tools of Loneliness | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

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