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Word: tucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pyramidlike structure. Then the queen is discovered in a formal pose just below her. Then the entire population of the village emerges from under the queen's matriarchal robes. It is also a nice touch to portray the native people (but not the leaders) with dancers and tuck the chorus away in an upper balcony. But, sad to say, all to little avail. William Bender

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pageantry of a Klutz's Mind | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...game was nip and tuck throughout the first half as the Crimson was nurturing a 27-26 lead going into the locker room. When play resumed, however, the Big Green's barometer began to steadily climb...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Dartmouth Nips Crimson Icemen, 3-2... ...And Green Upsets Cagers | 3/2/1977 | See Source »

Harvard students are admittedly not alone in their financial blues. Other Ivies have yet to break the $7000 figure although they are trailing close behind. The IRS classifies Harvard as a non-profit institution but budget officials have managed to tuck away a tidy proportion of the University's income in the name of fiscal conservatism. But the debt-ridden graduates of the '70s can be glad they're not 20 years younger--experts predict that by 1995 four years of college will cost over...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Students in the Red | 3/2/1977 | See Source »

...less Scotch was being offered than in 1972. Dozens of reporters on the liquid late-night beat and even some bona fide guests could not gain entry to a supper sponsored by Rolling Stone magazine because of unexpected crowds of gate crashers. The problem was that veteran Prankster Dick Tuck had printed thousands of counterfeit invitations in Reliable Source, an irreverent daily tabloid that he published during the convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Sidebar Convention | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...life when the film opens, were not all they should have been, and when the mad, majestic Richard Lionheart finally dies, Robin and Little John leave France with no regrets, riding north for England and Sherwood Forest. There, everything seems familiar. Robin and Little John come upon Friar Tuck and Will Scarlett, who are hunting deer in the forest. Now Richard's brother John is King, and their old adversary, the sheriff, still rules in Nottingham. Will brings Robin and Little John up to date by singing a popular ballad about the putative exploits of the merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Champions | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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