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Word: blah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOME say that it is better to do aerobics with an experienced friend--someone to give you courage, strength, the will to go on, blah, blah, blah...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Low-Impact, High Pain | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

...research on Central America. The mere sight of such a person is enough to make me cringe, because I know what's coming next: suddenly this perfectly inoffensive conversation will shift to an intense examination of the phallologoandrocentric nature of the universe as it relates to Derridean theory and...blah blah blah...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Remedy for the Harvard Sickness | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

Sure, you can send mail to Stanford. But remember, Stanford is in a different time zone, so you have to amplify stuff for your pen-pal by writing clarifications like "Last night I went to dinner at a keen restaurant (that's late afternoon, your time), blah blah blah" and avoid all references to earthquakes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clip and Save: Excerpts From the Upcoming Lampoon-Chaparral Collaboration | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...receive a letter from you, old chum," I replied and began scanning the paper quickly. It read as follows "blah blah blah blah, blah, blah." But my eyes lit up when I came to the part that said "I heard you didn't massage enough people's buttocks to become president. Sounds like a shame. I have a great idea for staging a coup to get rid of Cohen, though. If you'd like to hear about it, give me a call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clip and Save: Excerpts From the Upcoming Lampoon-Chaparral Collaboration | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...News/New York Times poll of 747 voters taken immediately after the choice of Ferraro indicated less enthusiasm at the grass roots than among political activists. Majorities of both sexes?62% of men, 54% of women?gave the selection a blah, "all right" rating. But among men, only 13% were excited by the choice; 20% thought it a "bad idea." The margin among women was surprisingly small: 22% excited, 18% saying "bad idea." One possible clue to the results: 60% of all those polled thought Mondale had made his choice in response to pressure from women's groups, vs. only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geraldine Ferraro: A Break with Tradition | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

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