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Word: scoot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes later, Crimson Captain Brad Kwong hooked down a Cornell skater who seemed reads to scoot free on a breakaway. But referee Harry Amman didn't call the penalty...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Work Overtime | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...glitz. They include Kronovores (creatures capable of devouring time), deadly Cybermen (decaying bodies encased in silver garb), the Yeti (a 9-ft.-tall carpet), the Anti-Matter Beast from Zeta-Minor (a bug-eyed sheet of aluminum wrap) and the Daleks, mobile robots who look like milk churns and scoot around intoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Who's Who in Outer Space | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

Offstage, Richardson played another role, no less carefully calculated: the foxy grandpa, cheerfully distant, fond of his drink and his pet ferret named Eddie, ever ready to scoot away on his motorcycle or to celebrate an occasion with his special display of fireworks. As for the pyrotechnics of his craft, he was meticulous in creating them, blending an exhaustive reading of the script with acute observation of Everyman in the street. It was this creature whom Richardson embodied and alchemized into art. In finding something extraordinary in the ordinary man, in revealing his dreams and despair, Sir Ralph proved himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyman as Tragic Hero: Sir Ralph Richardson, 1902-1983 | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...first mural commission, The Adoration of the Home, 1921-22, showing a group of allegorical figures around a cornfed goddess of the hearth who holds up a model house built by the Cedar Rapids developer Henry Ely, is a masterpiece of kitsch. But when unleashed, his imagination would scoot back to Anamosa every time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Scooting Back to Anamosa | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...only been able to put a few more pucks in the net during an eight game winless streak that stretched from mid. December to early February, it wouldn't have needed the miraculous stretch run to land its first playoff berth since '75-76'. And if freshman superstar Scoot Fusco hadn't scored in overtime to beat Cornell at Cornell, or if Dartmouth hadn't upset Yale last week, Harvard, which won the Ivy Division with an 11.s-2 record, the eight best overall, might be in the tournament...

Author: By Bruce Schoenweld, | Title: Big Night at Bright | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

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