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Word: tornados (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone who has dealt with the Harvard bureaucracy knows, many a brainstorm has gone out to sea in a tornado of red tape. Jackson also knew that if he didn't do his homework in advance, administrators would view his "boxing extravaganza" as nothing more than an unfeasible pipe-dream. After all, intramural boxing at Harvard had been banned in the early 1970s...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Harvard's Boxing Renaissance Man | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

...imaginary biology; the most eccentric and striking example of that genre being a pair of crude effigies of horses, made from sticks, chicken wire and mud by the California artist Deborah Butterfield. There is also a hilarious piece of funkiness by a Texas sculptor, James Surls, representing a tornado chewing through the roof of a church; Surls' debt to that master of buckeye surrealism, H.C. Westermann, is ob vious enough, but the image has a wobbly comic-strip blatancy about it that carries conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Roundup at the Whitney Corral | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...Wizard of Oz: Everybody's seen this one on T.V., but there's no way it can compare to seeing it on the screen and letting jack Haley, Burt Lahr, and Ray Bolger dance you off to the Emerald City in the sweetest fashion this side of a tornado. This movie just doesn't seem to fade--and how could it, with classic songs, great cameos, and munchkins to boot. Cynics in the crowd may yell "Cora!" when the wicked witch appears on the screen, but those are the kind of people who liked Animal House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Raining Over the Rainbow | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...nothing. In "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," they said, "NBC will not be able to predict the winner at 8:32 or report from 29 districts/There will be no highlights on the 11 o'clock news/The revolution will not be right back after a message about a white tornado, white lightning or white people." The lyrics both serve as a warning and a motivation to become involved. As for proof of any sixth sense, that doesn't exist either. In "Madison Avenue," Scott-Heron says "They can sell sand to a man livin' in the desert/They can sell tuna...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: A Verbal Coltrane | 1/5/1979 | See Source »

League rules require two U.S. citizens on each eleven-man starting team, a figure that will rise to five by 1984. But the Americans are not being signed on as token gestures to geography; they have learned to play the game. The Dallas Tornado and the Colorado Caribous have five American starters. Says Dallas Coach Al Miller, one of two U.S. head coaches in the N.A.S.L.: "I have faith in the Americans. I think you can win with them. We have Americans sitting on the bench who could play on most clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Here Come the Americans | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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