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Word: blood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stench of sulfur rose from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood. People stank of sweat and unwashed clothes; from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and tumorous disease...

Author: By Lisa R. Eskow, | Title: The Sweet Smell of Perfume | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...Harvey Allen) leans across the restaurant table and confides that the reason for her amazing psychic powers is that she was born with a tail. Yes! Her mamma had it surgically removed and kept it in the medicine cabinet, "right between the 4-Way Cold Tablets and the monkey blood." Which is about where, in the cinematic scheme of things, True Stories fits. Right between a 4-H rally and the Monkees' Head. Between Dallas and Paris, Texas. Between Charles Kuralt and Fellini. Between David Letterman and David Lynch. Between everything you forgot about rock movies and nothing you quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divine Comedy for the '80s | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...among South African blacks declined somewhat. But that changed after a mass uprising in the black township of Soweto near Johannesburg in 1976. An estimated 4,000 young blacks fled the country to avoid detention, and most of them joined the A.N.C. The result was an infusion of new blood and fighting spirit. Well before Tambo's recent declaration of a people's war, A.N.C. guerrillas armed with Soviet-made AK-47 rifles began to escalate their attacks on South Africa from bases in Angola, Zambia and Mozambique. Total occurrences of armed attack or urban sabotage believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Rebels with a Cause | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...point, they come across a player (Andrew Gardner) and his acting troupe, touring the countryside with their bawdy plays of "blood, love and rhetoric." Gardner displays just the right blend of braggadacio and jaded wisdom, as when he informs the mixed-up pair that "uncertainty is the normal state." The troupe, a mute foursome of half-wits, is perfectly, wonderfully imbecilic...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Alive and Well | 10/24/1986 | See Source »

Club singles-men--1, W. Danaher, Blood Street Sculls, 19:12.13; 2, A. Kress, Yale; 3, T. Cattell, Union Boat Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 22nd Head of the Charles Results | 10/20/1986 | See Source »

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