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Word: stick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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While dribbling the ball downfield, hunched over her stick, Velie outran everyone on the field, faked out the Eli goalie, and drove the ball into the net, producing a 2-0 lead an astonished group of onlookers...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Crimson Blast Elis, 2-0; Velie, Seidler Star | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

However, just before a Yale player could get to the ball, Seidler caught it with her stick and knocked it out of bounds...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Crimson Blast Elis, 2-0; Velie, Seidler Star | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...Ballou airs on Ch. 8 at 11:30 p.m. Unfortunately, Channel 8 is in New Haven and you may not be able to pick it up on your tv set, but if you've never seen this film and have nothing better to do, drive down there and stick around a week until the Yale game. This truly excellent film highlights the formidable talents of Lee Marvin, who received an Oscar for his performance as an alcoholic gunslinger...

Author: By Steve Schorr, | Title: The Thinking Man's Tube | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...country honors who is now Rutger's star safety). Now he's been to the valley. It has given him perspective. "All your life you're going to be confronted with situations when you get dumped on, when you get the short end of the stick. You have to learn to deal with it. I think I have. Being third string on Harvard is no disgrace. I'm still a good athlete, I'm still a good football player...

Author: By Abraham C. Marcus, | Title: Learning to Deal With It | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

...EARLY IN THE 1900s, the white politicians of the midwestern town that is the setting for Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon got worried. The city's blacks had named the street on which the only black doctor in town lived "Doctor Street," and the name seemed likely to stick. In an effort to fight the renegades, the town fathers put up notices in the black neighborhood: the street was "Mains Avenue," not Doctor Street. The Soutside residents responded in kind, calling the street "Not Doctor Street," just as they called Mercy Hospital "No Mercy" because it refused to admit...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: The Fathers May Soar | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

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