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Word: treys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trooping to the showers, the talk is of the weekend and not the battles ahead. "Just a couple of wins, and a lot of us will be happy," offers Trey Cowan, a tackle valued most for his critical mass: 310 lbs. Ziegler sees it another way: "We're S.M.U. We're expected to win. So we will." But if that doesn't happen, well, there are things almost as important as the stats. Like just being on the field at Notre Dame. "All that tradition," he says. "You can't help getting pumped up." The final score, he and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dallas, Texas Rebuilding a Shattered Team | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...keep us childless." Translation: Ed is barren, and the adoption agencies are not persuaded that a three-time loser would be a suitable father. Then Hi and Ed hear of a man who has more babies than he could find any honorable use for. This is Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), the Unfinished- Furniture King of the Southwest and sire of Harry, Barry, Larry, Garry and Nathan Jr., the famous Arizona quints. It is a temptation no child-hungry couple could resist. They should have, though. For the McDonnoughs are soon furiously pursued by their gooney neighbors Dot and Glen (Frances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rootless People RAISING ARIZONA | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...first postsecondary school in America devoted exclusively to teaching dyslectics. Typical is Andy Thompson, 26, who quit Franklin University in Columbus after fumbling through his classes, then got fired as an electronics technician because, as his wife Jane explains, "they said he was too slow and inattentive." Trey Smith, another Landmark enlistee, had similar symptoms and his own deep frustrations. A superb pulling guard at his Dallas high school, Smith saw a raft of football scholarships sink because of his hopeless transcript. Smith had known about his disability since he was eight; Thompson learned from a psychologist that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good Timers Need Not Apply | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Soon the bells at Memorial Church were tolling, and the flag at University Hall was at half-mast. A student stood on the grass in the Yard, pounding a trey softly with his flat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KENNEDY ASSASSINATED | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

...final round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Oakmont, Pa., Forrest Fezler ducked into a portable comfort station after finishing the 17th hole and emerged to play the last hole historically (also horrendously) in shorts. Last week at Wimbledon, England, where tennis shorts have been customary since 1946, Trey Waltke competed in long white Bill Tilden-like flannels, complete with an old school tie for a sash, until Ivan Lendl excused him in the second round, 6-4, 6-2, 6-3. "Nice pants," Lendl said as they shook hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Contempt of Court | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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