Word: tic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Jack Barry, 66, smooth founding father, producer and host of TV game shows, whose many creations included Concentration, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough; of a heart attack; in New York City. By 1958 he had four popular quiz shows on TV, among them the superhit Twenty One, with $129,000 Winner Charles Van Doren. Then investigations revealed Van Doren and other contestants had been coached. The resulting scandal wiped quiz shows, and Barry, off the air for years until he came back from near penury with Joker and others...
...opportunity to better some stars. Rivera homebred went two for two, walked twice and scored twice. The Utica N.Y. native leads the team in home runs (seven), batting average (.385), rbi's(26) hits (28) and atbats (78). With 11 games remaining, he's slightly off the pace to tic the Harvard single season the record (40) and slightly ahead of the pace to tie the school's single season horde run mark...
...caucuses to Pennsylvania's primary, each roared in and out of hundreds of towns, eating perfunctorily and exercising hardly at all. Sleep comes a few hours at a time in stuffy rooms and cramped airplane seats. The adrenaline gushes all day long. Every remark, every intellectual twitch or tic is scrutinized, recorded, analyzed. In the frenzy of political combat, the candidate must improvise crucial strategic moves, keep his facts straight and try to look presidential to boot. Senator John Glenn said he was "perpetually tired" two months before the first primary. Fellow Dropout George McGovern seemed well rested, even...
With her eight points Boutilier brought herself within five points of setting a new single season scoring record. The senior guard now has 301 points and needs 306 to tic Elatine Holpach's mark...
...team has made a remarkable turnaround since the Leverett House resident took over at the helm. After the Dartmouth game, they were 2-2-1. Since Princeton, they are 3-0-1, the only blemish on their record coming in a tic against heavily favored, non-league opponent, Holy Cross...