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Word: acidic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expenses begin with thesis binders. Every honors-seeking senior needs two, costing $8.50 each at The Coop, and another $8.75 for 100 sheets of the special acid-free paper most departments require-for thesis submissions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Writing a Thesis Is Only Half the Fun | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Demjanjuk's lawyers (one who mysteriously fell to his death from a 15-story building, the other who had acid thrown in his face) complained throughout the trial that the OSI was witholding other key statements from two Treblinka guards widely presumed to have stated that Demjanjuk was not Ivan...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Ivan the Terrible or Dreyfus? | 2/25/1989 | See Source »

...point on the ideological spectrum. He honored, with lip service at least, most of his kinder and gentler campaign promises, ranging from a pledge to halt offshore drilling in California to advocacy of extended health care for pregnant women and children. Bush courted environmentalists (by pledging an end to acid rain and toxic dumping) and borrowed lines from Jesse Jackson ("Keep hope alive"), while still echoing themes from the Reagan years ("growth and opportunity" and "family and faith") and bowing at the shrine of a balanced-budget amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reaganomics With A Human Face | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...young were seeing visions as the old stumbled into dreamland. To induce transcendence, the children of 1968 borrowed buzzwords from the East: ; karma, Rama, Krishna, om and the sound of one hand clapping. Other equally euphonic names would waken the third eye: marijuana and lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. "The deep psychedelic experience is a death-rebirth flip," said Timothy Leary, the great snake-oil salesman of LSD. "There is no death . . . There is just off-on, in-out, start-stop, light-dark, flash- delay." Jailed in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on a marijuana charge, Leary escaped with the help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

...ladles up lyrics with strains of Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. After that's all done, the band gets down to its real mission: to shake the house down. Explains Was (Not Was) co-founder Don Was: "We would like to sound like the Motown revue on acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chocolate-Covered Razor Blades And other treats from a fun funk band | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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