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Word: shooter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hasky captain Dave Poile, perhaps the best stick-handler and shooter in recent Northeastern history, put Harvard behind after 13 minutes of play, and the Huskies' rough. collapsing defensive style preserved the lead until early in the second period...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Icemen Mush By Huskies; McManama Scores Twice | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...scientific and administrative sides of mining. Avoiding politics, he sought the ingredients of what he considered a happy life: "The outdoors, far away places, and mining engineering." It was his mining experience that prompted John Foster Dulles to send him to Iran in 1953 as a trouble-shooter in the longstanding oil dispute. His success in that job led to his appointment as Dulles' Under Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 18, 1969 | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...Terribles were undaunted; they had a secret weapon that had never failed to take the day-marbles hand-carved from the finest porcelain commodes. Toucan Captain Len Smith, 50, winner of nine world championships, explained that only porcelain gives the "tolley" (shooter) the proper heft and feel. Every Toucan tolley is custom carved to fit the knuckle, but none has a diameter greater than .75 in.-the dimension prescribed by the British Marbles Board of Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marbles: The Secret of the Terribles | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...drum roll echoed through the garish, tentlike concrete hall. He looked up at the high wire overhead to see one of the Flying Cavarettas flip over three times in the air and land in the arms of her brother. The act distracted him just long enough for the dice shooter to roll a crap three, wiping out the gambler's winnings. He collected his remaining chips, glared at a cavorting clown, shouldered past a lady stilt walker and stalked out of the casino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling: Midway on the Strip | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...hyperboles, spruce affectation,/Figures pedantical." And there are hundreds of puns, many be-labored mercilessly. How many of today's theatregoers relish extended puns on long-obsolete terms for a male deer of the second, third, and fourth year? Or puns that require the knowledge that 'suitor' was pronounced 'shooter' and that 'parson,' 'person,' and 'pierce' were homophones? How many of you are familiar with words like kersey, farborough, caudle, inkle, thrasenical, and placket? You do know 'half' and 'capon,' but not in their meaning of 'wife' and 'love-letter.' And there is a parade of obscure proper names, Elizabethan...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Love's Labour's Lost' Midst Rock 'n' Raga | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

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