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Word: bitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost voted the other way but then I said, 'Enough's enough. We've got to stop this a little bit at the edge of the Square,'" said Russell...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Harvard Still Mulling Lawsuit | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...work my computer. I don't understand certain financial things, though I'm really good with the bottom line. I flunked geometry twice. My mind just doesn't work like that. But I'm completely comfortable in this medium. I put in hard days, but I love every bit of it." He's also sensitive about what he considers his own physical limitations. "I don't think of myself as classically handsome. I've been told that the camera is really good to me, but sometimes when people meet me, they're baffled. That's why I hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevin Costner: Pursuing The Dream | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...take that advice. If moviegoers are embracing him only as a sanctified jock, maybe they should brace themselves for Revenge, scheduled for release early next year. This violent drama may upend -- or just end -- Costner's current image as a Goody Two-Cleats. "Revenge is shocking, vulgar, a bit of a fall from grace," Costner says. "But I have no problem playing a man who isn't likable, as long as I understand him. Revenge is strong medicine; you won't come out feeling good. That's O.K. too. You don't have to have a snow cone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevin Costner: Pursuing The Dream | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...Bush. The difference is the heart of Quayle's salvation strategy. He staggered through the election branded an overprivileged airhead. As candidates or incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle and his advisers decided that inactivity was the biggest risk of all. "We had to move before the clay hardened," says his chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dan Quayle's Salvage Strategy | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...deathbed young George beseeched coach Knute Rockne to win one someday for the Gipper, it would have been more in character for Gipp to want to get $500 down on the streptococci. Myths, legends and lies are the beams and girders of games, but isn't it a bit much the way the country has been getting ready to be appalled by Pete Rose? O.K., he's a plunger. Everyone knows gambling pervades sports. It pervades life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Did Pete Rose Do It? What Are the Odds? | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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