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Word: bowle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ACROSS this frothy bowl of milk and cornflakes we call our nation, millions of average Americans are twitching and hopping as they stroll down our streets, mouths silently opening and closing, little pockets of drool collecting on their shirt-fronts. Hygienic concerns aside, just what the hell is wrong with these people? Disease? Demonic possession? Gastro-intestinal cramps...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Musical Madness | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

...Chop Suey, but dey just like dem ones at Pat O'Brien's in dey Vieux Carre, and you drink two o'those, you say, "Doucement!," start feelin' like a nutria gettin' whomped on dey head! And I tell you what - C'est vrai, babe! - Dey teach dat Scorpion Bowl how to sting! Put one o' dem in your shoe, you gon' holler...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...table Moses demonstrated how the rhinoceros thinks. He used the saltshaker to represent the American visitor. The pepper shaker would be the rhino. The sugar bowl would be the boulder that stood between them. "Be careful," Moses warned. He moved the rhino in an ominous drift to its left. The rhino began to circle the sugar bowl, using the bowl as cover in order to ambush the saltshaker (the visitor) from behind. The visitor became a naked and oblivious wanderer on the white linen plain. He stood frozen and defenseless as the rhino came...

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

...Supreme Court rejected the idea of holding a session in Philadelphia during the celebration. To date, television network coverage of the eight-to-ten hours of Philadelphia festivities is still being negotiated. But the planners are certain their program will sell. "It's no different from the Super Bowl or the Olympics," says Richard Rovsek, the committee's national marketing director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pursuit Of Tackiness | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

When the food got bad, students got mad. Four undergraduates staged the Rotten Cabage Rebellion of 1807 by presenting then President James T. Kirkland with a bowl of maggoty soup. They were promptly expelled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students' Protest Tradition: From Bad Food to Investments | 2/4/1987 | See Source »

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