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Word: dinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale jumped to a huge seven-point lead in the first game before Harvard got untracked. The Crimson closed the gap to 11-14 when Steve Kay made two successive spikes and a dink to tie the score...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Crimson Spikers Lose to Yale, Drop to Third Place in ECVL | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...booming endzone kickoffs with their sixsecond hang time (the pros are happy with four) and another year to perfect his moves, he could be, barring a serious injury, Harvard's first bona fide pro superstar. Unless the rest of the country still thinks Ivy League football is rinky-dink, he deserves nothing short of All-American this year...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: CBS Reports | 11/20/1973 | See Source »

...agents Segretti had enlisted to help him pursue those aims in a dozen states. The testimony of this third-rate trio of political schemers indicated that they were far from a formidable, sophisticated force. With considerable justification, Republican Senator Edward Gurney called theirs a "rinky-dink operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Dirty, but Surely Beyond Tricks | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

YALE-BROWN -- When Yale's elite secret society. Skull and Bones, tapped the mythical Eli football hero, Dink Stover, in 1911, he said it was the biggest thrill of his life. When Skull and Bones became liberal in 1948 and tapped Yale's great black halfback. Levi Jackson, he rejoiced. "Thank heavens, my name isn't Jackson Levi." But in 1971 when Skull and Bones tapped Yale's present hot shot half back. Dick Jauron, who broke Jackson's all-time rushing record two weeks ago, Jauron told Skull and Bones to buzz off. "They don't even have...

Author: By Bvevanw. Thomas, | Title: On the Bench | 10/14/1972 | See Source »

MUCH OF THE HUMOR in Yojimbo is based on Kurosawa's sense of irony. For instance, when the samurai enters the town, the first sight that greets him is of a small dog. Rinky-dink music accompanies the dog as he trots towards the foreground. Finally, the animal is in perfect focus and one can discern that in its mouth is--a human hand...

Author: By Louise A. Reid, | Title: A Fistful of Yen | 5/19/1972 | See Source »

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