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Word: tod (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening's scoring began when B.U.'s Tony Meagher swooped down the right side and flipped a pass to Tod Johnson who ran the puck past Lau at 4:18 of the first period...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Overtime Goal Lifts Icemen Over B.U. | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

Only under the worst conditions does Updike envision that men can begin to dismantle the obstacles between them. Pain alone links Tod and his wife. Pumpkin, in "Love Song for a Moog Synthesizer." Tod responds to Pumpkin's need for human sympathy only when she offers a "piece of herself, transferred to his ribs, his kidneys, as pain." Love attaches itself only "to what we cannot help," Updike observes grimly. In another tale of marital wrangling, then, the wife gets through to her husband only by inducing desperation like a "hooked claw," evolving "psychic protuberances that penetrated and embraced...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Meaning of a Missing Sock | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

Kirkland used its strong ground game to shut out Leverett and post its third straight win. Late in the first quarter, K-House moved 65 yards down the middle of field, scoring on a three-yard Tod Elkins run. Tom Sylvester added the extra point...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Last Minute Drive Lifts SoHo to Title | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

...House team entered the fourth quarter leading 12-0, on a four yard Tod Elkins sweep and a 60-yard pass play from quarterback Steve Perry to Terry Tedeschi. An interception by linebacker Bill Stenson set up the Elkins...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Quincy, Kirkland Post Wins | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

...SCREEN'S greatest Dracula? Not Bela Lugosi, who gave a lugubrious performance in Tod Browning's 1931 Dracula, which was utterly ruined by its failure to abandon the Deane-Balderston play. F.W. Murnau's German silent Nosferatuwas a good deal better, and even today provides one or two chilling moments, but Max Schreck's strutting rat did not have a whole lot of dramatic stature...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

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