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Word: aplomb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown ran the show with aplomb, whether establishing a much needed ground game in the first half (the running attack suddenly healthy after sputtering in the last two outings, picked up 135 yards), or holding the surging Big Red a bay with a couple of momentum-breaking second-half drives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QB Brown Takes Charge | 10/11/1977 | See Source »

September 19. 1977--The Crimson score, the climax to a 14-play, 79-yard drive midway through the second quarter, came on a five-yard rollout by quarterback Tim Davenport--who, all things considered--like the fact that this was his initial varsity start behind center--performed with aplomb...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Timmy, We Hardly Knew Ye | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

...paint-starved clubhouse at halftime. The Crimson score, the climax to a 14-play, 79-yard drive midway through the second quarter, came on a five-year rollout by quarterback Tim Davenport, who, all things considered--like the fact this was his initial varsity start behind center--performed with aplomb...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: One Down, Eight to Go: Harvard 21, Columbia 7 | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...curtain dropped on her career, Adela Holzer. 43, played out her self-scripted role with aplomb. She even managed to maintain her poise after she was indicted last week in New York State Supreme Court on 137 counts of larceny and falsifying records. "I don't wear dark glasses when I went to be booked," she told TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin in her heavily accented English. "Everything will be done openly as 1 have led my life." With first-nighter enthusiasm, she gushed over the mug shots taken as she was booked, pronouncing them "the best. I have short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Winging a Broadway Angel | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...member of the foursome (Ned Sherrin) acts as a kind of M.C. and spins off topical jests with the aplomb of Johnny Carson. The other three-Millicent Martin, Julie N. McKenzie and David Kernan-sing 31 full songs with style, relish and a neat change of pace. Uniformly responsive, the opening-night house came to a roar on at least three numbers. Millicent Martin brings the granitic grit of survival to I'm Still Here (Follies); Julie N. McKenzie belts out Another Hundred People (Company) like a trip hammer; and David Kernan joins the two women for a satirical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: String of Pearls | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

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