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Word: lit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though smoking is the point of it all, Tiegs does not smoke. She holds her long, skinny cigarette unlit in her long, graceful fingers. In the finished ad, the cigarette will be lit for her, politely, by the retoucher. As she walks off the set to be dressed in her next costume, she drops the Slims to the floor. By the end of the day, Tiegs, Nancy and Cristina will have, in such fashion, gone through more than a pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American Model | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...also kept the Crimson's ever-flickering chances for an ECAC playoff berth still lit. Harvard must beat B.U. tonight in the Beanpot finals and Yale Saturday night, while Providence must lose to Boston College on Friday for post-season to be something other than flaming jelly-beans at Jack...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Edge Dartmouth, Keep Playoff Hopes Alive | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

...first eight minutes of the third period the two teams played a wide open, offensive brand of hockey. The Crimson continued to frustrate Cornell with its tight checking. Then Cornell junior John Stornik lit the Big Red fuse...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Cornell Crushes Crimson, 4-3 | 2/24/1978 | See Source »

According to California energy experts, once the wood chips and walnut shells are lit with a blowtorch or an electric hot rod, they continue to bake on their own and give off a steady supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1978 | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...hood was long on style, short on rough stuff. Never officially graduating from high school, he drifted into a few local Long Island rock groups and recorded one solo album, which resulted in little notice and a prolonged legal wrangle with his management. Joel and his girlfriend Elizabeth lit out for L.A. To pay the rent, he played cocktail piano for half a year in a neighborhood bar called the Executive Room that advertised BILL MARTIN AT THE KEYBOARD. Joel emerged from this honky-tonk penance with a new wife (Elizabeth), a new contract from a major company (Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brash Ballad of Billy Joel | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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