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Word: aine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ain't so, Mr. Volcker. Tell us that the reports we've been reading -- that you have stopped smoking cigars -- aren't true. How will unimaginative journalists be able to describe you if they can't write, "Paul Volcker, the towering 6-ft. 7-in., cigar-smoking chairman of the Federal Reserve Board" ? How will you blow enough smoke to shroud your policies in secrecy? How do we know that going cold turkey won't make you irritable and prone to raising interest rates? Sure, we realize that it will be good for your health to give up those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADEMARKS: Smoke Alarm At the Fed | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...Wahter ya'll lookin' at, boys? She ain't mah neighbor's wife or nothin'... where's that dern stage...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Oral Arguments | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

...Jackson, Miss., Edelman had sought out a group of black teenagers, hoping to dissuade them from violence. But when she tried to warn them that looting and rioting in the streets "may ruin your future," one boy angrily shot back, "Lady, why should I listen to you? Lady, I ain't got no future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Cannot Fend for Themselves | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...strangest dream he dare consider. It is a vision into the future perfect, of middle-class stability and continuity, of a purloined child growing up to be a college football star and an old couple with funny names surrounded by a loving family they can never have. "It ain't Ozzie and Harriet," Hi had said earlier of his tattered family portrait. But it's a lot funnier, weirder and more exuberantly original. Just like this movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rootless People RAISING ARIZONA | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...fishnets to Pine-Sol Spray to create his narrative of life-on-earth. But remember, this is the fantasyland of dreams. Here, as Strindberg admitted, "anything can happen; everything is possible and probable. Time and space do not exist. Characters can split, double, multiply, dissolve, float apart, condense." This ain't gonna be no night at the opera...

Author: By Lea. A. Saslav, | Title: A Dream Play | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

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