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Word: bottoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thelma Hall has begun writing poems about the animals, especially about the elephants. One of the poems ends: "I was always taught/ There are fairies at the bottom of the garden./ At the bottom of our garden/ There are elephants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...ENDEARING that you are always the one who is trapped on the seat after discovering that there is no toilet paper? Is it endearing to roll over on the bottom bunk into the piping hot radiator? Regularly reoccurring events should not be confused with events should not be confused with events that are desirable. For some reason people seem to have trouble keeping this distinction clear...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Bothersome Bits of Harvard | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

Coming into last week at the bottom of the Ivy League ratings for Field goal and free throw percentage the Crimson has now moved, into third--a notch above Princeton and three above Penn--in shooting from the floor, and fifth from the charity stripe...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Duke-ing it Out With the Big Guys | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

...thinking about joining the Peace Corps my self. But not anymore. I don't want to go halfway around the world to hang around with a bunch of bottom downed pre-professional B-school aspirants whose main concern is how many people they can dick over on their way to the top of Dillon Read. I can do that here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUFF I THINK: | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

...boat. "Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be," he says. And now that Conner understands this, he doesn't mind. "I don't like to sail," he says. "I like to compete. I guess I don't dislike it, but my sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going For the America's Cup | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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