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Word: tucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 »

When she arrived in Cambridge, Pam could perform a front two-and-one-half off the three-meter board, but could only do it in tuck (legs bent and tucked tightly against the body during the somersaults) position. To learn to do it in pike (legs straight throughout) would add .2 (the difference between 2.1 and 2.3) to the dive...

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

...what appears to have been a routine transfer, Galante was sent in late September to the medium-security federal prison at Danbury, Conn. Once again the armed men turned up at Lillo's bedside to tuck him in and stand guard. But also tracking Galante was a skilled Colombo family hit man, Carmine ("the Snake") Persico. Serving a 14-year sentence in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta for hijacking, the Snake somehow managed to get himself transferred to Danbury. But during the trip north, he was held briefly at the Lewisburg, Pa., federal prison and was visited there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Why Lillo Is Lying Low | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...philandering is the movie's single redeeming feature. Otherwise there is nothing emotionally or intellectually involving here. Unless, of course, one is interested in some "personal statements" about the state of the movie business, contemporary issues and the star and director themselves that they manage to tuck in along the way. It perhaps need not be added that these are of a piece with the rest of A Dream of Passion-awkward, pretentious and empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Vanities | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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