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Word: balding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes, and that was the cue for the kids to break out." Some youngsters still carry knives and guns as casually as pocket combs. One parent assaulted her, and she notes, "I've had kids say to me, 'I'm going to punch you,' or they call me 'that bald-headed bitch' because of my short hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting Tough | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...crashing down on the white male Harvard establishment. (Note the Marxist imagery.) Although it hasn't hit the overwhelmingly male faculty and administration, when the process is consummated a new social order--and a new student center--will rise upon the ruins of the finals clubs and the entire bald white patriarchy...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Clubbed to Death | 1/6/1988 | See Source »

...bombers plummeting to strike seaborne prey, bankers in tuxedoes posing in comic solemnity at a social event on an ice floe. But the easy, intelligent prose of Authors Les Line, Kimball L. Garrett and Kenn Kaufman allows the real creatures -- from the lava heron of the Galapagos to the bald eagle -- to emerge from the metaphors in full dimension. Not all the faces are pretty. The fierce marabou stork of Africa needs 2 lbs. of meat a day, and often finds it in the carrion left by lions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shelf of Holiday Treats and Treasures | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard coach is bald, the Harvard coach is bald," the Lynah fashionplates screamed at Cleary last year as they have for the past 17 years. And Cleary, the good sport, patted his head, smiled and waved to the mobs. They roared their appreciation...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Pursuing Fun, Sun, and Win | 12/4/1987 | See Source »

...minute the group wearing black leather jackets and bald pates stands huddled together laughing. A man, standing in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank on Mass. Ave., wails on the bagpipes. The skinheads laugh and heckle. He puts away the pipes, and a cheer erupts...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Philosophy of The Pit: Skins Talk Straightedge | 12/3/1987 | See Source »

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