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Word: uno (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent rags to riches saga would cause even Horatio Alger to pull a three-point turn from six-feet under. Despite inadequate funding from a varsity-sport-obsessed Athletic Department, weather-beaten practice facilities and a severe shortage of even primitive equipment, the table tennis team is ranked numero uno in the East after its recent win at the Northeast Intercollegiate Table Tennis League championships...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: King Pong Wins Upset Over 60 Boylston Brass | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

Offensively, give the credit to Larry Brown, who, off Saturday's showing, killed the starting quarterback question. Brown is numero uno, no ifs, ands or Buckleys about it. He threw two scoring strikes in the first quarter Saturday, a 20-yarder to Jim Curry and a six-yard shortie to Scott Coolidge, and generally ran the show the way someone with more than two weeks of multiflex under his belt should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Gets Its Act Together, Cornell Doesn't | 10/11/1977 | See Source »

...first issue contains 64 pages and some 40 bylined articles, each written in English with a brief Spanish precede, by Latino contributors. There are personality pieces on Cuban-born Dancer Fernando Bujones, numero uno at the American Ballet Theater, Rodeo Star Leo Camarillo, Spanish-born Fashion Designer Fernando Sanchez, Miami Newscaster Emilio Milian, who continues to speak out against Cuban terrorists despite a bomb attack that blew off both his legs, and Archbishop Roberto Sanchez of Santa Fe, N.M., the highest-ranking Latino prelate in the U.S. Regular features include fiction or poetry, a gallery of art or photography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Voice for Latinos | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Orscheidt called this meet the second best in the world, ranking only behind the United States Olympic trials held once every four years. In both depth and quality, Orscheidt added, the United States is numero uno and this meet proves it, at least in men's swimming...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Crimson Swimmers Still Floating in Ohio; NCAA Championships Underway This Weekend | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

Bill Kaplan thus played numero uno, bringing back memories of '75, Mark Panarese numero dos and so on down the line. And so on down the line the final scores were all the same, 3-0, with a few notable exceptions near the end that at least broke up the monotony...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Four Crimson Squads Take Care of Dartmouth | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

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