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Lately, however, a few extra pounds have team cramping Hall's style considerably, Kleinfelder says her charge is ineffective at her current weight, and Hall has been on the bench during the tipoff of several recent games...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Frenesa Hall | 2/24/1982 | See Source »

...move, designed to give the Crimson a little extra ball control, didn't last long. Carrabino entered the game just 46 seconds after the opening tipoff...

Author: By Mark H. Doctor off, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: A.U. Oppresses Crimson; Losing Streak Continues | 2/10/1982 | See Source »

...they have also hired experienced military talent to supervise their operations. The smugglers have their own intelligence, counterintelligence and reconnaissance units. Their logic is as blunt as their favorite Mac-10 submachine gun: any sizable bust by the feds must of necessity be the result of a tipoff. You find the squealer and eliminate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine: Middle Class High | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

Absence of socks, for example, is a clear tipoff that extra, not less, care is being taken. The habitual wearing of fine leather next to the skin necessitates an air of nonchalence whose cultivation takes a great deal of effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What to Wear? | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

...ambulance that was the tipoff. Few Czechoslovaks paid much heed last week when they glimpsed a sleek, Soviet-made ZIL 114 limousine speeding through the streets of Prague with dark green curtains drawn over the rear and side windows-especially not with a Communist Party congress under way. Senior party officials often travel in such cars with drawn curtains. But the limo was followed closely by an obviously well-equipped Mercedes-Benz ambulance. That was a dead giveaway that the VIP passenger was none other than ailing, 74-year-old Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev, whose battle with the infirmities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ailing but Determined | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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