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Word: winner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn hockey retread and All-Ivy forward Tom Cullity got the eventual game-winner at 1:42 of the final period, as he tipped a Chris Zimmerman slapshot which Crimson goalie Wade Lau tried unsuccessfully to trap between his pads...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Vermont Freezes Icemen, 7-4 Crimson Record Now at 3-5 | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

...wheel which costs about $550 in the Quincy market. On a Total Uselessness scale from 1 (relatively useful), to 10 (no earthly reason why anyone would need this object), a ship's wheel rates about an eight. Put it all together and the brass wheel comes out a big winner. Not only will the recipient be struck speechless with gratitude, but you will look like the kind of person who knows how to give a great gift...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Brain Coral for Uncle Eb | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...emphasize this fact. It has all the flash of a first class program, but the results do not come because Ford is a lot of empty rhetoric. In addition, every year the program drops players who simply refuse to deal with a coach they find neither understanding nor a winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ford Controversy | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

Election supervisors said they stopped the voting in one Windhoek precinct because blacks were brought to the polls by the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), a multi-party backed by South Africa. Because of the SWAPO boycott the DTA is seen as the likely winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Africa Holds Namibian Vote; SWAPO and U.N. Protest Elections | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

People started paying the junior Phi Beta Kappa key-winner to tutor their children. "It was pretty primitive compared to what I'm doing now," Kaplan said recently during an interview. "Forty years ago there were no standardized tests. The big thing was grade-point average, so I tutored in the three R's." Kaplan's engaging whiz-kid personality rubbed off on his clients--his reputation grew to the point where he was tutoring 200 students on a one-to-one basis...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Horatio Alger, With Chutzpah | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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