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Word: scuff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1983-1983
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...explain who is doing what to whom, and why, in the four-team limp-off is a mystery even to the participants. When questioned, players squint into the middle distance, managers scuff the artificial turf, and fans in Winnie's, a watering hole on Crescent Street in Montreal, stare mournfully into their Molson's beer. Says St. Louis Manager Whitey Herzog: "It's the craziest race I've ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Can Anyone Win This Thing? | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...inherently dramatic and painful. Brown's compassionate recollection of Brian Epstein as a deliriously romantic, masochistic homosexual and erratic businessman who died of a drug overdose in 1967 is like a rough character study for a Tennessee Williams play. Brown and Co-Author Steven Gaines have managed to scuff up Paul McCartney's Goody Two-Shoes and suggest that there is a lot more turmoil and contradiction lurking beneath the careful cherubic surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Backstage Beatles | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

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