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Word: wonderful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every year when the azalea and eucalyptus bushes begin to bloom in the citrus belt, the winter golf tour gets underway and people begin to wonder if Jack Nicklaus will reassert his dominance or if the golden hours of the Golden Bear are finally winding down...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golden Hours of The Golden Bear | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

...question of whether Stoppard can write a play that relies less on epigrammatical flash and more on substance still remains, however. Stoppard is only 38, still a young playwright, and Travesties must be looked on as an early work of genius. But it is genius, nonetheless; someday we may wonder why and how Stoppard went on, while the rest of us teach, work, play, lie in the cemetary up the hill in Zurich or under glass in the Kremlin...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Pulling Out All the Stops | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

Weinrauch emphasized that Hastings House has readjusted goals from those of the old training schools. "We're not trying to turn these kids into wonder boys. We just want to make a dent--get them to work at a job, enroll in school. They mingle with regular kids in the community...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Substituting minibikes for hot cars | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

...wonder the flow of the game was so bad. Each player skated as if he needed double-runners. It was as if the guys were doing poor Mr. Frick imitations by taking spectacular spills, especially as they flew head-first into the benches...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Watson Rink Proves to be Never-Never Land: Dartmouth J.V. Whips Frosh Icers as Well, 7-4 | 3/2/1977 | See Source »

...past decade, but her music is too cerebral for her to compete in drawing power with the cockerel crowing of the men. Somewhat to her own surprise, it is Linda Ronstadt who has made herself one of the biggest individual rock draws in the world. Elton John, Stevie Wonder, John Denver, Paul McCartney and Peter Frampton, among others, are bigger. Then comes Linda, the chicklet who shows up onstage wearing peasant blouses, cutoff jeans, subteen knee socks and track shoes to sing Love Is a Rose and That'll Be the Day. She is dead serious about her music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Down the Wind | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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