Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point in the basketball season, the teams of the Pacific8 conference are accustomed to watching U.C.L.A. move toward another first-place finish. The last time a John Wooden squad failed to win the conference championship, Lyndon Baines Johnson was President and gasoline cost 31.90 per gal. The team's eight-year reign may finally be dribbling to an end. In a season of surprises on the West Coast, all but two of the conference's eight teams are in a scramble for the top spot...
...wide-open race began with the graduation of U.C.L.A. Center Bill Walton, whose teams lost only two games in three years of conference play. Though this year's U.C.L.A. team is by no means a pushover-in 17 games it lost only twice-it is no Wooden juggernaut. "We can beat anyone-absolutely anyone," says Realist Wooden, "but lots of teams can beat...
...necessary-soon"), social speculations (a discussion of concert ticket prices segues into a rendition of Find the Cost of Freedom), and heavy images (a needle stashed inside a Bible) of terror and salvation. There is also an occasional felicity: a scene of black, hooded figures carrying wooden crosses, riding hard down a lonely beach, has power and mystery...
...Kenneth C. Edelin (pronounced Ead-e-lin) was still slouched over the second wooden desk at the front of the Suffolk County Superior Court courtroom, standing trial for manslaughter for an abortion he performed on October...
...this particular day quite a few of the secretaries, about 50 of them, are filing off with their lunches into a room with gold chandeliers and a long horseshoe of wooden tables. As they walk in they see at the far end of the room, sitting behind a table, a man and a woman conferring...