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Word: boned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soybeans are in poor-to-very-poor condition. In Chicago the news that scattered showers were sprinkling the blistered Plains and Midwest created a near panic in the commodity pits as traders rushed to retreat from the sky-high futures prices they had been paying during the bone-dry days of late June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drought's Food-Chain Reaction | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

Beyond the power and slam, the appeal of boxing may just be its simplicity. It is so basic and bare. In a square ring or vicious circle, stripped to the waist and bone, punchers and boxers counteract. Tyson is already the first, and potentially the second, so the eternal matchup of gore and guile doesn't just occupy him outwardly, it swirls inside him as well. Modern moviemakers are good at capturing the choreography of fights -- they understand the Apache dance. But in their Dolby deafness they overdo the supersonic bashing and skip one of the crucial attractions: the missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing's Allure | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...diameter, it fits snugly over the cervix, or neck of the uterus, and is held in place by suction. The diaphragm is bigger and more fragile. A thin rubber dome averaging about 3 in. wide, with a flexible rim, it is placed between the pubic bone and the vaginal wall and kept in place by tension. Both contraceptives are used with spermicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Comeback of A Contraceptive | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Hard to change, in part, because the image of women's clubs is so tightly tied to the bone-china days of yore. Most clubs were born in the era following the Civil War as a makeshift laboratory for women's consciousness. The Industrial Revolution had freed women's time, reduced their chores, increased their mobility and introduced that cherished female institution, the free afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: High Noon for Women's Clubs | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

September 26, 1987: The Harvard football team takes on Northeastern and its fabled Wishbone offense. The Crimson (2-0) picks the 'bone clean. Yohe (265 yards passing, the eighth best day in Crimson quarterback history) again leads the attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agony, Ecstasy and Even a Few Titles | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

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