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Word: smorgasbord (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game long decided, Big Red rooters risked the referee's wrath as they tossed a smorgasbord of seafood and fowl--some as energetic as backskating defensemen--on to the ice before the third period started. Cornell was in fact assessed a delay of game penalty, but Treadway took advantage of it to score a shorthanded goal. Nethery, who with 51 points is one behind Treadway in the scoring race, grabbed his sixteenth goal at 10:23 to complete the scoring...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Eight Goals in First Period Help Cornell Destroy Icemen | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...season's first premieres, he upstaged the entire industry by ripping up his own previously announced schedule. Silverman changed the prime-time lineup on five out of seven nights, shifting the long-running Saturday Night at the Movies to Wednesday and announcing a smorgasbord of "stunts" (movies and specials) for the fall. Says Mike Dann, ex-CBS program chief and onetime Silverman boss: "Never before have there been so many major moves so late in the game. Historically, the networks set the schedules on Washington's Birthday and never changed them. Now they're going to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1978-79 Season: I | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...stalls typically are filled with a smorgasbord designed to appeal to every taste, from used goods to discounted, discontinued lines of new merchandise. Aficionados claim that the larger markets offer one of everything ever made and two of everything Woolworth ever sold. There are Army uniforms, ladies' spats, metal detectors, Roosevelt buttons, Wallace buttons, Nixon buttons, toilet seats, hubcaps, ski boots, gum ball machines, telephones, dried fruit, perfumes, crutches, jump ropes and Christian Dior shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: Bug-Eyed over Flea Markets | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...tune with athletics on campus. To start with, since your title reveals your European or Canadian descent, I think you manage English remarkably well as a second language. Furthermore, I marvel at the number and variety of events you relate. Who could imagine a college with a greater sports smorgasbord...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Snoway to Go: This Was the Week That Wasn't | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

Denying the possibility of a plot, Kosinski relies on this smorgasbord of exciting incidents and fascinating characters to retain the reader's interest, unfortunately, only a few of Kosinski's characters are on stage long enough to develop into interesting individuals. The rest become props for the protagonist to use and discard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Gives? | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

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