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Word: spectacularly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fumbled nine times but managed to hang on to the ball long enough to score a 31-13 victory over Rhode Island (0-4). Larry Carbone was 6 for 8 in the air, and Marty Morgan rushed for 81 yards to pace the Brown offense. The Bruin defense was spectacular, holding URI, to a mere 36 yards in 44 carries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth, Cornell, Yale Record Wins | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Passion Play chronicles the spectacular incidents frantically about chronological time: the swing of a polo mallet revives the memory--the images, glints and scents--of the same action many years before...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Horse Play | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

...with gases like those in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Then, to simulate sunlight and Jovian lightning flashes, they exposed the gases to ultraviolet light and shot electric discharges through them. The brown and yellow hues of the organic compounds that formed in the container closely resemble those in the spectacular pictures of the Jupiter clouds taken by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, which flew by the planet earlier this year. This finding strongly suggests that organic compounds also exist on Jupiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Looking for Signs of Life | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...Kong flu and had to withdraw halfway through the second performance. It took him three years to overcome that anticlimactic beginning at the house. But when he did, in a production of The Daughter of the Regiment with Sutherland, he set New York on its critical ear with a spectacular series of nine high Cs in a single aria. With no little help from the publicity mills, Pavarotti the supertenor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera's Golden Tenor | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...ambience just doesn't come across. TV's idea of conveying the atmosphere, the jumble, the ebb-and-flow relaxed panic that permeates the Open (and its home since last year, the National Tennis Center in Queens, N.Y.) and distinguishes it from some taped pseudo-spectacular from the Rio Spectaculo Beach Resort, is a quick pan from the Goodyear blimp, or a quick aside from Tony Trabert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Season | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

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