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Word: aproposed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Enough!" shouts the mother of the groom. "This is their wedding day. I don't want to hear anymore. Let us leave quietly." Then, apropos of nothing more than the increasingly common disdain many Chinese appear to feel for the army they saw as their great protector before it marched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

E4D's logic would lead one to the conclusion that although the Class Gift itself is immoral, an effort to raise money for a Class of 1988 Bench would be apropos, since the money would not affect the College budget. But it is the very nature of the Senior Gift...

Author: By Thomas D. Warren, | Title: Senior Gift is Apolitical | 4/28/1988 | See Source »

"One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned," wrote Sherwood Anderson in 1921, in a celebrated short story titled The Egg. Anderson's melancholy view is more apropos than ever. The poor egg, already condemned by heart specialists for its high cholesterol content, was blamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Another Bad Break for Eggs | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

The Skinhead Hamlet is precisely what it sounds like: a telling of the classic tale transported into the idiom of British skinhead punk rockers of the late 1970s. The play opens with Hamlet (Dean Norris) spray painting the misspelled setting--"DENMAK"--on the wall. This Hamlet spends his time fighting...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Bard-acious Comedy | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

The last time Joan Collins saw Paris was during the winter of '86 in the CBS mini-series Sins, which TV Guide last week dubbed the worst in its category last season. Undaunted, she is returning to France in the four-hour World War II melodrama Monte Carlo for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 28, 1986 | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

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