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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried an unsuccessful pass to Solomon across the goal, their fullback stopped it and tried to clear it but as I leaned back, it bounded off my knee and went in," described Thomas, as he was heroically swarmed by fans after the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Salvage Unbeaten Season | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

...side two, Marley continues to blast Bablyon. He points to the American insistence on going to the moon while Jamaicans went hungry as an example of the flaws in ruling class morality. In "Zimbabwe" Marley sings out, proclaiming once again the need for force...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Reggae Revolution | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

Fouts took over from his dead-armed and ineffective hero in the fourth game of his rookie season, and went on to endure six chaotic years as the best target on one of pro football's worst teams. The Chargers ran through six offensive coordinators in seven seasons, and shed head coaches almost as frequently. With the arrival of former St. Louis Cardinals Head Coach Don Coryell in 1978, Fouts took off like one of his own passes. Coryell installed a sophisticated passing offense, a "tree" system that sends swarms of receivers downfield to move across predetermined "branches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Redemption of Fouts | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...with it: "On the Atlantic crossing back to England, he was uncharacteristically miserable, and on one occasion burst into tears, confessing to Isherwood that he could never find anyone to love him and that he believed himself to be a sexual failure. Arriving in London on 17 July, they went that evening to the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Leader of the Gang | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Singer has never had greater command of his material. At times he is the Jewish Somerset Maugham, spinning yarns of jealousy and violence with the detached tone of a narrator who just happened to be on the scene when the gun went off. At other instances he is a Kafkaesque master of the parable. At still others he is as comic and trenchant as Saul Bellow: a pretentious artist declares, "I must create. This is a physical need with me." A writer who consents to meet with a wealthy vulgarian is enticed with promises: "In the other world, a huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Novel | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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