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Word: blankings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson, by contrast, played a strong game, hitting and skating well. Only in the second period did they let up, allowing the Hawks to dominate much of the period and pepper goalie Mark Whiston with 13 shots. Whitson sparkled in the net, stopping a half-dozen point-blank shots with some impressive acrobatics...

Author: By Jon Losos, | Title: J.V. Skaters Down Chicago Hawks, 5-1 | 1/8/1982 | See Source »

Things started out anything but slow. Crimson forward Tony Visone took a neat pass from Greg Britz behind the net and beat Eaagle netminder Bill Switaj from point blank jut 24 seconds after the first puck was dropped...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Boston College Hypnotizes Icemen, 4-3 | 1/6/1982 | See Source »

...three American nuns and an American missionary left El Salvador International Airport in a white Toyota van, bound, as it turned out, for a shallow grave 15 miles to the northeast. Though the National Guard had claimed thousands of victims in the years and months before, the point blank shots to the back of the head that killed the four churchwomen were, for the war in El Salavador, the shots heard round the world, or at least the Western Hemisphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forgotten El Salvador | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...Billion by 1985. Projected factory sales of blank tape for the next few years. Big Mylar and big moola. Since most VCR owners now buy just 20 tapes, this figure allows not only for expectations of greater machine sales but an increase in demand for prerecorded cassettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Saved by the Numbers | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...abstract expressionism and the new realism. Instead, his female nudes, often in monumental proportions, inhabit both schools. The results of his energetic production are collected in the 200 pictures-100 in high-intensity color-in Tom Wesselmann (Abbeville; 321 pages; $75). The artist's huge women are usually blank idealizations adrift in mundane rooms, like the fantasies of adolescent boys. Others display explicit but deadpan eroticism among billboard-style oranges and ashtrays. Always provocative, usually amusing and sometimes shocking, Wesselmann's work reflects America's amorous obsessions. In his windy and erratic assessment, "Critic" Slim Stealingworth tends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Treasures of Art and Nature | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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