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Word: pointer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine dimes and a tribe of pennies. "C'mon folks, if you give a little more, I won't play so badly. I teach at Julliard, really. Here's a little Mozart for you." He stops after four measures, scratches at his cap and uses the bow as a pointer to count the coins in the case. "Thanks folks. More." Outside the glass door, all the limos have gone home...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: At Loose Ends? Get Out | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

...threw no interceptions. A 15-yard bullet to Rich Horner brought the Crimson to within the field goal range for Dave Cody's 41-yarder and another pass to Bill McGlone took the Crimson deep into Brown territory at the 15 to set up Cody's second three-pointer...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Don't Forget Galoshes | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...carefully that I could not have packed them; at this thought he became physically sick. I was aghast when, in the plane, I wanted to change shirts before arriving in Peking. In desperation I borrowed some white shirts from John Holdridge?a six-foot-two trim former West Pointer whose build did not exactly coincide with my rather more compact physique. Photos of my party in shirtsleeves show me smiling enigmatically, in garments that left me with the appearance of having no neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE CHINA CONNECTION | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Until now Henry Irwin, 62, a West Pointer and former lieutenant colonel who resigned from the Army in 1947 after marrying Phillips Petroleum Heiress Elizabeth Phillips, was best known as a maverick Oklahoma presidential elector. In 1960 he ignored his pledge to Richard Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd. Last week a court approved a settlement in which Irwin will be paid $1,600 a month by his exwife, as long as he remains unmarried. She herself had proposed a payment because of his lack of income. "It was just something I wanted to do," she told newsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...months that Crystel has lived with Powell, she has learned to feed him-albeit sloppily. On signals from Powell with a flashlight-pointer, she will also turn lights on and off, fetch such small articles as keys, books and slippers, open doors, place records on a stereo turntable and put things back in their places. Says Powell: "Crystel has her own personality, and she won't take any guff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Live-In Monkeys | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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