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Word: spunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first of two 10 minute overtimes belonged to the Crimson. Six minutes in, Kelly Landry broke into the Princeton box, freezing the goalie. She then fed freshman Electa Sevier for the goal. "We tried to dig out and did a great job," said Coach Bob Salise. "We had the spunk and pizzaz to get the equalizer and the go-ahead...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Booters Drop Heartbreaker to Tigers | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...audience's worst expectations about sequels and gets his best laughs by not quite ful filling them. As Norman, Anthony Perkins is knowing, in on the joke, but decently wary about going too far. Meg Tilly, as his young friend, plays the reality principle with winning spunk. Given just a bit more style and drive, Psycho II might have entirely overcome its doubt less cynical origins. But even as it stands, it is a modest, surprisingly agreeable entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Good Joke | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

...kills penalties as well as anyone," says Harvard Coach Bill Cleary. "He puts the puck in the net He comes back and play defense. But it's those little intangibles, that little bit of spunk, that made Greg Olson special...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Greg Olson: Retired at 21? | 1/7/1983 | See Source »

...Whit's grandpa) are more in the nature of inconveniences than high drama. There are encounters with a cranky bull and a mean-minded con man who owes Red money, an interlude in a cathouse, and, most persistent, a girl named Marlene (Alexa Kenin), who has all the spunk she needs to become the singing star she dreams of being. Too bad she can't carry a tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Plain Song | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...match-up that has all the makings of a barroom brawl. On the right of the room, Charlie Daniels, roof-raising country rocker, the good ole fiddler who a couple of seasons ago sang about the devil going down to Georgia and about solid American spunk: "This lady may have stumbled, but she ain't never fell/ And if the Russians don't believe it, they can all go straight to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fire from the Mountain | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

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