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Word: boned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of being a big-play offense, the lineup is designed to wear out the defense by grinding out short run after run. While Yale (8-1 overall, 6-0 Ivy) throws the football more than most wishbone teams, passing is still a rarity under the Eli's bone...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Gridders Prepare for The Game: Will Yale's Wishbone Break? | 11/15/1989 | See Source »

...predictability does not make it any easier to stop. Just ask the six Ivy squads who have fallen to the Elis this season. Given Yale's accomplishments, there is obviously some validity to the bone as an effective offensive philosophy...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Gridders Prepare for The Game: Will Yale's Wishbone Break? | 11/15/1989 | See Source »

...tell you what I think," said Deep Throat. "The top bananas at HDS are more willing to serve inexpensive but non-nutritive iced tea or lemonade than orange or apple juice. Of course, this leaves the students either to squeeze the bone-dry oranges or just to contract scurvy...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Dining Hall-Gate | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

Opponents charge that a disaster during launch could spew large amounts of radioactive fallout throughout Florida and cause 2,000 cases of lung, bone and liver cancer. The danger, they say, does not end with a successful takeoff. To gather momentum, the Galileo spacecraft will first make a swing around Venus and two around the earth before hurtling off to Jupiter. Critics are concerned that the vehicle could collide with the earth during close flybys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Nuclear Fears About Galileo | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...question has taken root in the power circles of Washington. It is thrown up at every White House briefing. Congress, like a hungry dog with a new bone, is jubilantly chewing on it. The question will echo down through George Bush's remaining years of stewardship and on into history unless he has some miracle up his sleeve or gets a little of Ronald Reagan's luck. So far, he has not had an oversupply of either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency Is Bush Bold Enough? | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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