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Word: switches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Predun's amazing ability to switch directions and stay in balance while moving at full speed left UMass defenders reeling all over the field while the other key links in the Crimson's potent offense waited for Predun's passes...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Stickmen Crunch UMass, 11-8 | 5/7/1980 | See Source »

...their nature slow. Cantabrigians will not wake up one morning to find all the Irish and Italian working-class residents leaving and a wave of laser technicians and econometricians moving in. But in a city where voters go to the polls only once every two years, and where the switch of one seat on the City Council would mean control of City Hall, the changes in power could literally occur overnight. They have before--Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, the senior member of the City Council, says at least twice in the city's history the balance of power changed...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Gentrification at City Hall--Political Guesswork | 5/6/1980 | See Source »

Every Monday through Friday, 52 weeks a year, fans in "38 states and half of Canada" switch on their radios at 7 p.m. and listen to a man rant about sports...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Making Air--Waves | 5/6/1980 | See Source »

...strongest members of the boat according to erg scores, Gates said he liked his new home in the power seat and all the other rowers felt the switch and improved the boat's speed and control dramatically...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Lightweight Crew to 'Dogfight' Tigers and Elis for Goldthwait | 5/2/1980 | See Source »

Libraries serving the graduate faculties other than Arts and Sciences--such as business, medicine, and law--are funded by their respective faculties, and they had delayed the switch because of the costs involved, including computer use and cataloguing standardization...

Author: By Jeffrey B. Chasnow, | Title: Union Catalogues Will Cease After Libraries Computerize | 5/1/1980 | See Source »

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