Word: slug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems to be dating badly. Maybe the idea of rewriting Romeo and Juliet as a plea for ethnic tolerance seemed more startling in the '50s than it does now. Maybe putting a gang of Puerto Ricans and a gang of non-Puerto Ricans on the stage and letting them slug it out in a ballet had more impact then. (Maybe Jerome Robbins's choreography was better than this production's, I suppose.) In any event, as a showstopping obscenity, "mother-loving" just doesn't make it any more...
Harvard's seed almost guarantees a pass to the finals, as it only has to face the winners of the three-six game, probably B.C., in the semi's. B.U. and Cornell should also breeze through the opening round and will have to slug it out in the semifinal round in what will be a real grudge match for both teams...
...further, they began to suspect that Essex may have been involved in earlier unsolved shootings. Just one week before the Howard Johnson shootout, on New Year's Eve, one cop had been killed and two wounded within the space of 15 minutes in or near police headquarters. Slugs recovered from two of the victims matched some of the .44 magnum bullets fired during the Howard Johnson murders. The morning of the shootout, a white grocer in New Orleans' black Broadmoor section was also shot and wounded by a .44 magnum slug. The attacker fled on foot, and shortly...
...added that he was sure the Elis would be ready to slug it out with the Big Green on Saturday. "It'll probably be the toughest game Dartmouth will have this season," he added...
...most successful magazines ever published, Playboy has inevitably inspired imitation. The newest entrant in the flesh-fun-fashion field, however, brings the flattery of emulation to the border of plagiarism. Gallery, which went on sale last week, carries a cover slug that is identical in arrangement and type face to Playboy's, and is perhaps meant to be mistaken for it on newsstands by the nearsighted...