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Word: wonderful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coach Billy Clearly danced from the Crimson bench to join the mob near the Harvard goal, the Wildcats could just stare and wonder what it takes to win a game in this March-mad tournament. UNH has now lost seven of eight ECAC quarterfinal contests...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: ECAC Upset: Harvard Stuns UNH, 4-3 | 3/10/1976 | See Source »

WELL INTO TOTS IN TINSELTOWN the pariah-to-parvenu actors and actresses--the tots in Hollywood--sit around a barren movie set, pink slips in their hands, pondering their impending return to poverty. Kitty Kaboodle, dancing wonder, naif from Moot Point, Montana, says she'll go home, give up the glamour. But Henna Hoofer, jaded and street-smart, tries to change Kitty's mind; she tells her she's got to keep on, then looks up into the lights in a mood of inspiration invoking the dream of the silver screen: "Everywhere," she says, "there are girls...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Guess You Had to Be There | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Some publishing insiders wonder whether Kobrin and his group started their New West mainly to see if Felker was eager enough about his expansion plans to buy them out. And there is a certain ambiguity about Kobrin's challenge to his New York rivals: "We'll give these carpetbaggers a run for their money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Name Games | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...Gold, his first novel, which attracted little attention, he declared, "The failures of the last couple of years seem to have no effect on my spirit whatsoever. Eventually I will be so good I cannot be ignored." Only a few years before, he had written, "I wonder if that sharp agony of words will occur to me again. I wonder if I shall ever be drunken with rhythms anymore. I am twenty-six and I am not young anymore." The defiance disappeared with success, but the self-doubt nagged at him throughout his life. Twenty years later, at the height...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Tools of Loneliness | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

...Pooks has grown accustomed to tea and cocktail parties, and with all the attention he gets at them, it's no wonder he's anxious to get there early. "I love my Pooks more than anything else in the world," Rostropovich told one of the guests, and apparently he wasn't exaggerating. Rostropovich interrupted his tour of England in the summer of 1974 to visit Pooks, who was in quarantine in the finest animal infirmary in France...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: From Russia, With Love | 2/25/1976 | See Source »

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