Word: stoppered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart stopper in the final period, as Harvard scored three goals and came a whisker away from a fourth in the last minute. Following Mike Eruzione's tally that proved to be the game winner at 8:32, Levy Byrd discovered a chink in Walsh's armor. His weak shot dribbled between the Terrier goaltender's legs and the crowd and the team came alive...
...more personal "handles." These nicknames rip through the air waves, sounding like the cast of Looney Tunes; Woodpecker tears by hi the night with his co-driver Stogie; Number One Nose Picker noses ahead of his good buddy Squirrel. Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox. Even the handful of women truckers enter the naming game. Granny Go Go, Lovey Dovey and Truckin' Mama barrel on down the highway with the boys...
...Crimson will counter with elusive running back Tommy Winn who piled up 133 yards rushing in last week's victory over Brown. Rover back Bill Emper, who has emerged as the stopper in the Harvard defense, will be heavily counted on to stifle Yale's potent attack...
...fresh from the Midwest, the liberations came hand in hand. They shaped each other, and the differences between them were confused. What seems to have happened in their intermingling is a steady backfire; the combination has put a stopper on the practice, if not the noise, of each...
...Midsummer Night's Dream, Hedda Gabler at Canterbury, and replaced an ailing Lotte Lenya in a production of the Weill-Brecht The Seven Deadly Sins in Edinburgh. Currently she is starring in a London revival of Show Boat, where her breathy, pulsating Bill is a showboat-stopper. Her musically adventurous nature has also led her to give lieder recitals, try some of Dankworth's offbeat settings of Shakespeare Sonnets and Bach inventions, and sing the role of Eve in Arena, a futuristic opera by Britain's George Newson, at a 1971 London Prom concert under Pierre Boulez...