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Word: blankings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this point the scoreboard clock at Nickerson field went blank but that couldn't stop Ferrante from getting her hat trick, at 43:05 of the second half, on a cross pass from center Cecile Scoon...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Ferrante Scores Three Goals As Women Booters Romp, 7-0 | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...alternative. Sunday night's debate showed him unable to understand the problems that confront our cities. When Lee May of The Los Angeles Times asked him what he would do to fight the "emotional and physical" crises of American cities, Reagan responded with one of his fill-in-the-blank answers. "Get the federal government off the back of (blank)." (Choose one:a) business, b) local governments, c) the American family, d) the oil companies, e) all of the above.) Reagan chose letter...

Author: By David H. Feinberg, | Title: Homesteading on 149th St. | 9/24/1980 | See Source »

...Pretender for the sound alone; it's been the words themselves. What Hold Out has to say it says directly, in lyrics much more literal and less literary than Browne's usual. Expecting metaphors for his world(s) in the road and the sky, you get hit point-blank with the sidestreets and the lurid bright-light Sunset Strip, strolled by hookers and hold-outs alike...

Author: By Jess Taylor, | Title: Jaded Ingenue | 8/12/1980 | See Source »

...Genesis: God created Adam, whose rib provided the spare parts for the first loudspeaker (i.e., Eve)." Glover's wife Carolyn, a first-time delegate and a member of the national platform committee, chuckled. Glover earnestly went on: "The ERA as it is written is a blank check for homosexual rights"-even though the amendment does not mention homosexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: On Traditional Family Values | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...dramatize his sermon against Communism last year, Minister Jim Powell had several uniformed men rush into the First Baptist Church in Daingerfield, Texas, and fire blank cartridges. Thus most of the 350 worshipers in the church last week thought it was just another example of play-acting when Alvin Lee King III, 46, burst in as the congregation was singing More About Jesus. King was wearing Army fatigues, a flak jacket and helmet, and carrying an arsenal: an AR-15 rifle with a bayonet, an M-1 rifle, a pearl-handled .22-cal. pistol and a .38-cal. pistol. Slung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: This Is War! | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

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