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Word: whirligigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second touchdown with 2:27 left in the half. First, Brown connected with Horner who went out at the Colgate 35 for a first down. Brown then carried the pigskin himself on four of the next five plays to set up a Crimson first down on the 12. Whirligig halfback Ralph Polillio then bolted up the middle and into the endzone for the six points. Bosnic's point after made the score...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Crimson Gridders Paste Colgate, 24-21 | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...Penny Whirligig. Dravot and Carnehan succeed beyond their wildest dreams, and then fall farther than their worst fears. They sweep into the country with a shipment of rifles, organize the natives into armies and take over as rulers. Danny is taken for a god and made king. The .wealth of the entire country is at hand and ready for plunder. Danny, however, decides to live the dream, take a wife and settle into monarchy. Before Peachy starts back across the mountain with half the national treasury, Danny asks him to stay for the wedding. At the ceremony, Danny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rogues' Regiment | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...Pictorial History of the Carousel. To halt the destruction, more than 200 lovers of that old amusement-park staple gathered in Sandwich, Mass., on Cape Cod not long ago to form the National Carousel Roundtable and dedicate themselves to ensuring the future of the merry-go-round, the whirligig and the flying jinny-as carousels have been variously known in their 95-year history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Carousels Preserved | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

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