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Word: aine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like good New Yorkers, the Panthers accepted it all with a shrug and a smile. "You're all a bunch of (word begins with p, and it ain't Panthers)," Adelphi defenseman Barry Greenberg yelled to his teammates in the third quarter...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Traveling in Two Directions | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

Whether Jackson poses a threat or offers therapy to his party, he constitutes something of an intelligence test for America. With his unashamed assertion of who he is, he flirts with prejudice, daring it out of its cave. He is the only presidential candidate who can say ain't without being considered ignorant except by the ignorant: "We makin' what ain't nobody buyin'." More than most politicians, he has a sense of the absurd in a campaign, and cannot resist making jokes as well as history (as he proved during his surreal day with Silo Sam). Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making History with Silo Sam | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...hardly fit to wipe your shoes with, some of them") and stitched them into a quilt that kept him warm as a child. Then, referring to different minorities or excluded parts of his audience, he tells farmers, or strikers, or Hispanics, that "you're right, but your patch ain't big enough." The minorities must unite to extend their influence. He does not reach the real conclusion of his parable -- that the white patch ain't big enough either; the majority cannot solve the nation's problems. If blacks do not participate in the solution to this country's difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making History with Silo Sam | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...Ain't Broke...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Drive to Unionize: Issues Without Answers | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

...good benefits here," says one worker, who has declined to consider arguments on either side of the union issue. "A union might improve things a little, but I believe, 'If it ain't broke...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Drive to Unionize: Issues Without Answers | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

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