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Word: lightweight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...division of the Head of the Charles race this Fall, the Harvard lightweight eight romped to an easy victory over Yale and M. I. T., two teams that Gladstone ranks as tough competitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Crew Will Fight For National Title Again | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...Borge had conducted "with such crazed dislocation of tempo and with such prodigality in expression of tragic suffering and deep knee-bends," wrote Steinberg, "the audience would have been in stitches." Two weeks ago in the Herald Traveler, Gelles remarked that Guest Conductor Seiji Ozawa "has shrunk from a lightweight with charm and real elegance to a conductor whose performances are technically inaccurate and emotionally indifferent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Critic at Large | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...shuffled his lineup in an attempt to gain strength in the lightweight classes, but the outlook is not too promising in the 126 and 134-pound matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Face Unknown Quantity In First Ivy Match Here Tonight | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

Harward's lightweight-eight crew stroked by Dave Harman, captain of the Crimson's lightweights, won their event, finishing the long upstream course ??? seconds sooner than Yale's team and well before M. I. T.'s lightweights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles Regatta Draws Top Oarsmen; Harvard Captures Three Major Races | 10/27/1969 | See Source »

...Calif., a city filled with a litter of lost people, most of whom pile on urine-smelling buses each morning and head for the onion, peach or walnut fields for a killing day on skinny wages. Gardner's three characters are grafted to this landscape. An aging (29) lightweight, lush and former local contender, Billy Tully grieves over his split with his wife, who occupies his flophouse dreams and gives him a convenient excuse for not fighting. Then one day, finding himself in a Y.M.C.A. gym, he meets Ernie Munger, an 18-year-old would-be welterweight and sends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Softer They Fall | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

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