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Word: crosstown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second half seemed to evaporate into desultory football. Neither team put together much offense; it seemed to move crosstown to the Vet, where Penn State came from behind to obliterate Temple. Buckley's 41-yd. touchdown strike to Chuck Marshall with 6:52 remaining in the game put Harvard comfortably ahead...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Snoozing Gridders Wake Up to Top Penn, 28-17 | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...Boss wants the boys to vote for Carter this year. But the boys are looking for rule #3. Pavlich knows that the days of a straight union vote are over. Crosstown in the Lorain Country Board of Elections, a woman who's watched the town for years knows, too. "At one time, the unions could deliver a block vote--but that doesn't work anymore. If the economy were up and they had a full pocket, they would vote Democratic...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Pride Grows With Progress | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...move from the Southland to the concrete terrain of Manhattan, Waits is looking to infuse some new blood into his life. No more 2 A.M. cruises down Santa Monica Blvd. with his pals. No more late breakfasts at Duke's. Tom Waits will be jostling with commuters on the crosstown bus or riding the subway late at night, exploring the dark underbelly of another kind of town...

Author: By Stephen X. Rea, | Title: The Tom Waits Cross-Country Marathon Interview | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...This year we just don't have the horses to run the race," coach Branmir Zivkovic said after his fencers lost to crosstown rival MIT, 15-12, Saturday...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Crimson Fencers Split Weekend Meets With MIT | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...that pornography has always been what the individual Supreme Court justices decide it is. It is little more than embarassing, then, to reveal that Justice Brennan cast his vote using the "limp dick standard" or that "for White, no erections and no insertions equaled no obscenity." The Post's crosstown rival, The Washington Star, has long boasted of its breathless gossip column, The Ear. Woodward and Armstrong supply some strong hardbound competition in parts of their book...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Justice on Parade | 1/3/1980 | See Source »

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