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Word: spectacular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbia's Renery also will start at center half and is the sparkplug of the Lions' attack Against Princeton Renery made a spectacular assist on Columbia's first goal and later scored on a free kick...

Author: By Robbert W. Gerlach, | Title: Booters Open Ivy Season Against Lions; Gomez, Meyers Face Individual Battles | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

Fantastic Voyage involves a miniaturized medical team doing tricky brain surgery from inside the patient. The special ef fects are spectacular and won the 1966 Oscar. Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch play two of the tiny people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 10, 1969 | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...five years, the New Orleans Police Department had been deviled by an exceptionally skillful gang of thieves. Their scores totaled a spectacular $500,000 in cash and $1,400,000 in jewels. Their methods were dazzling. In 1966, for example, two members of the gang, masquerading as the crew of an armored car, wheeled up to Schwegmann Bros. Grant supermarket, picked up $186,000 in cash, gave the manager a receipt and disappeared. Eight days later, burglars chopped through the roof of the Coleman E. Adler & Sons jewelry firm and dropped into the store to spend hours burning open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: To Catch a Cop | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...Crusaders from adding a touchdown in the final two seconds, Dartmouth made an on-sides kick and recovered the ball. End of game. It was kind of like Killer Kiwalski kicking Arnold Scolland in the groin after the Killer had laid Arnold out flat in a pro wrestling spectacular...

Author: By Bennett ? Beack, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

...Mickey Mantle, one of baseball's all-time greats. "The Mick" hit over 500 home runs in his career, including one in an exhibition game in 1953 that was described as the "most spectacular drive in the 44-year history of Pittsburgh's Forbes Field." He and his wife, Merlyn, and their four sons make their home in Dallas...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Welcome to the Dallas Wax Museum | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

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