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Word: steels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take Renee Richards. Karl Marx thought you needed a hammer and sickle to work material changes on "objective conditions," but Renee has proven that a less than lethal dosage of gonadotrophins and a stainless steel blade can do the trick just as nicely. With a single stroke, she revolutionized tennis. Which only goes to show that professional wrestling is the greatest sport on earth...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Trans-Sexual Athletes: Battle of the Chromosomes? | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

...called cul-de-sac-of-pus by his friends) so guileless and cunning that he shouldn't even be allowed to make neurological decongestant ads or even be on welfare, one-two-threed his way into a state of protoplasmic regret when Bruno finished dicing him through the Great Steel Cage. He actually ripped Hanson's face off--yanked the pulpy flesh right off his doggone skull. Ex-transvestite. Hansen, whose eyes had long since disappeared to leave only streams of orange blood, mistook a kindly referree for his phantom foe. But he didn't even have the strength left...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Trans-Sexual Athletes: Battle of the Chromosomes? | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

Hansen's doctors say that if he ever wants to play the violin again he'll either have to develop muscular chest hair or be prepared to bow with steel hooks...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Trans-Sexual Athletes: Battle of the Chromosomes? | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

...situation probably will be the position of the industry's giant, U.S. Steel. Last week its executives said not a word, but Chairman Edgar B. Speer is on record that "any price activity will come in 1977." Some Wall Street analysts speculated in consequence that until Jan. 1 or shortly after, the industry will have an unusual "two-tier" pricing system, with some mills charging a higher and others a lower price. If U.S. Steel decides to hold the line, the increase undoubtedly will collapse again. But if the giant raises prices, it could present Carter with an awkward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Steel Tries Again | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...Dublin dialect, while invariably musical, is sometimes irritatingly impenetrable. In a troupe that plays well, but not always together, Cyril Cusack stands out as a sly, roguish charmer. Siobhan McKenna, a woman seemingly larger of spirit than any role she fills, makes Bessie Burgess a matron of blood, steel and tears. T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Dubliners Undaunted | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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