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Word: sidearms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late." Edberg is only 23, but everyone in Paris felt a little older. "Chang's young," he said. "Maybe he doesn't think that much." By four months, Chang displaced two-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker as the youngest major champion of the modern era. With his charming, sidearm delivery, Becker, 21, said, "Almost-the-older-ones you have to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youth Will Be Served | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...eyes could have honored bizarre local customs more graciously. She took a rock out of her pocket, explained that it came from the top of Everest, and asked politely whether she could heave it through the studio window. "Of course," said Letterman. She chucked it with a good sidearm motion, and there was the familiar sound effect of breaking glass that Letterman fans have grown to love. Fade to commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climbing Mount Everest: What It Takes To Reach the Summit | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...memory erased and his mind reprogrammed to "uphold the law," hits the streets of the city's crime-ridden districts. A combination of the Terminator, Dirty Harry and a Campbell's soup can, Robocop shoots with pinpoint accuracy, deflects bullets like an armored car, and handles his machine-gun sidearm like a cowboy...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Robocop | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

...with 1.000 batting averages against big leaguers. "The vodkas helped," declared Albano. Lessel came within a prayer of knocking a 355-ft. homer. The Arnold family went home happy: Father Leonard managed a grounder, Son Larry stroked a solid single, and twin Gary struck out Banks on a sidearm change-up. The most happy player may have been Soloway , the quintessential bumbler, who was awarded a plaque as Most Improved Player. He promptly an nounced his retirement from baseball. Until next year? -By Michael Demarest. Reported by Lee Griggs/ Scottsdale

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Boys of Winter | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...mischief-making possibilities of this splendid sidearm may have occurred to an occasional rancher's son, with dire results for rooster weather vanes and passing semitrailers. But the Nel-Spot fell among major-league upsetters of the peace last year in Gaines' Newbury, N.H., living room. He and his friends were jawing enjoyably about whether a city man, adept at taxi-dodging and expense-account padding, could possibly have the survival skills in the outback of a hardened countryman. Hayes Noel, 40, a trader on the floor of the American Stock Exchange in Manhattan, took the hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Splotched in the Woods | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

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