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...invented seven years ago at Penn State, but it takes a while to get an undercover fad going. Only this year did a campus divertissement known as the "tuck-in" spread to the University of Maryland, where a group of male students calling themselves Pillow Talk Inc. offered chaste bedtime tuck-ins to any classmate in the women's dorm with 99?. That price included the company of one Teddy bear for the night, a final kiss on the cheek from one of a trio of males, two of them in three-piece suits. Best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nighty-Night! | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...merely palms a $100 chip or two from the stacks of losers' chips that he rakes to the side of the roulette layout after each turn of the wheel. Since the croupiers' dinner jacket pockets are traditionally stitched shut to prevent just such finagling, nimble-fingered dealers tuck stolen chips inside their shirts or cuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Croupier Capers | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

Skiing in sixth position, Moser-Pröll charged the course hard, risking everything in the tight, steep, slippery turns on the top of the run. She crouched into an aerodynamic tuck where no one else dared. It was a display of intimidating control, and it gave Moser-Pröll a gold medal as well as a slight case of frostbite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Stunning Show, After All | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...Manhattan court, her belly button had been displaced half an inch to the left, and a thick scar wound across her abdomen from thigh to thigh. Her doctor's promise to give her "a nice flat, sexy belly" with a routine operation called a lipectomy, or tummy tuck, had turned into a nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Big Mistuck | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...looked like the bombadier squad for a while," coach Walker said, "there was a time when we talked about going back to the two-and-one-half tuck just because I was tired of seeing her getting herself smashed...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Ivy Diving Champ Pam Stone | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

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