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Word: stingiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that to adjuster Bobby Frame, who hurt his ankle in the second quarter and had to sit out the rest of the game. Frame anchors, with cornerback Jim Smith, a Harvard pass defense which has recovered from a horrendous 1988 season to become one of the Ivy's stingiest. Frame is listed as questionable for Saturday's Lehigh game...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Admiral Perry Navigates Ivy Honors | 10/4/1989 | See Source »

...while the Bruins, with their new Harvard-trained coach, have two losses to go with their two Ivy wins, they are showing theyare for real. The Ivy stat sheet shows that Brown boasts the second best offense and the second stingiest defense...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Newfound Promise in Providence | 11/2/1985 | See Source »

...straggling to apologize. Just misplaced that little pinky on the calculator. The litany of excuses for this error are surely being prepared by Defense Department flaks at this very moment. And in a normal period eg-regious as the potential cost overrun is, we would be satisfied with the stingiest of mea culpas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fuding The Numbers | 2/22/1984 | See Source »

...Press-Scimitar was once a lusty voice in a bawdy town on a river bluff. A typically irreverent headline: MOUNDS OF EVIDENCE BARED IN TOPLESS CASE! It set new lows in participatory journalism. In the 1960s it bedecked its most fetching female reporter in the stingiest miniskirt available, sent her sashaying down Main Street, photographed the event and published the pictures across the top of Page One under the screaming pronouncement LOVE IS A MINI-SPLENDORED THING! For all this silliness, it had a down-home feel to it, and readers who stuck with it professed to prefer its casualness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tennessee: Death of an Afternoon | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...shop around for the best financial incentives before deciding where to locate. But Hyster Co., a forklifl manufacturer based in Portland, Ore., has carried this game a step further and used it for decisions about existing plants. The result: a high-stakes game of musical chairs in which the stingiest locality loses its Hyster plant when the music stops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squeeze Play | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

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