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Word: bowle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...likely to be below the norm of, say, 15 years ago. Skeptics also complain that teachers are drilling students on test skills instead of real reading and writing. Disgusted by the cramming mania, one Missouri superintendent recommended that schools in his district refrain from "preparing for the Super Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Those Soaring Scores Mean | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Allen Ludden, 63, affable, scholarly looking host of top-rated TV game shows, starting with the General Electric College Bowl during the 1950s and moving in 1962 to Password; of complications from cancer; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 22, 1981 | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...first normal meal consisted of consommé and a boiled, mashed pear, and the next day he tackled a bowl of stracciatella, a hot chicken broth with egg drops. There were clear signs last week that Pope John Paul II was on his way to recovery-and, as usual with any job he tackled, doing it robustly. Doctors at Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic removed the 26 stitches they had inserted after a would-be assassin's bullet ripped through the Pope's abdomen on May 13. The Pontiff received visitors, made brief voyages to a nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Not Yet Hale, but Hearty | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...famous Cotton Club. It was not a happy time. Working conditions backstage were terrible, pay was bad, and when Lena's white stepfather tried to get her a bigger role, the club's white owners beat him up and pushed his head into a toilet bowl. After joining another band, she recalls, "I literally ran away and married the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Stormy Weather on Broadway | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...everything was during the war. But the generation of the Depression is retiring and dying off, and today's younger workers, though sometimes laid off and kicked around by recessions and inflation, still do not keep in dark storage that residual apocalyptic memory of Hoovervilles and the Dust Bowl and banks capsizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What Is the Point of Working? | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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