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Word: blows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impervious to scandal. Last week, though, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted James M. Beggs, NASA'S administrator and a former executive vice president of General Dynamics, the third largest U.S. defense manufacturer. Although the charge had nothing to do with NASA business, it was still a blow to agency morale and prestige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unexpected Fall From Grace | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...Winston's graceful music. (Still to come: Jack Nicholson reading Kipling's Just So Stories and Cher doing The Ugly Duckling.) A video version of The Macmillan Illustrated Almanac for Kids is an intriguing hodgepodge of informational segments on such diverse topics as why volcanoes happen and how to blow huge soap bubbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Kidvid Cassettes for Christmas | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...said he worked at Store 24 "six or seven years ago" and who currently works in the area, said, "Someone walked in and said, 'Give me all your money or I'm going to blow your fucking brains...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer and Russ Muirhead, S | Title: Munching Past Midnight at the Store 24 | 12/14/1985 | See Source »

...Spielberg will decide to make a movie that actually cares about its subject. Hopefully, that day will come before we get tired of his special effects. I, for one, am starting to get bored. . . quick, somebody blow up an Egyptian pyramid...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: An Elementary Holmes | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...Skinnerean flourish, computers have taken over the roles once filled by biological units called parents. Electronic gizmos can teach your kid to talk, count, spell, add and read as well as to dodge alien fire and blow up spacecraft. But will these toys tell your child that there is a difference between bleach and Sprite? Can "Whiz Kid" instruct your child not to try to swallow the Nerf Pool Cue and Balls? Can "Little Professor" teach your youngster that Lhasa Apsos can cannot survive the intense heat and radiation barrage found inside a microwave oven...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Kids' Stuff | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

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