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Word: boys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more games, pretty boy," I said, "No ties, see? I'll make xerox copies from morning to night! I'll shove papers from Desk A to Desk B, and write memos until I drop dead of boredom! Then I'll get up the next morning and do it again! I'll even work in a bank! Just no ties...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: A Tie That Binds | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

Cleary: "Ugh. That makes it twice as tough. Oh, boy, it does terrible things to the hair line. Which reminds me of a joke. What do you call a bunch of rabbits walking backward? A receding hare line...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Burdens of a Tough Job | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...Three million shares were sold in the first half-hour, and often there were no takers at any price. One block of White Sewing Machine Co., which had been 48 a share a few months before and 11 the previous night, reportedly went for 1 because a bright messenger boy made that offer and there were no others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Once Upon A Time in October . . . | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...figure salary, likes his restaurants expensive and vacations in Africa, French Polynesia, Australia and London. This week he was scheduled to close on a loft apartment, but last week found him on the phone, pleading with his lawyer to extricate him from the contract. "I even told the shoeshine boy, 'I can't afford a shine today,' " he laments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Snapped by Their Own Suspenders Ouch! | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...right? Partly because the conservative faithful lack a totem with the stature of Barry Goldwater in 1964 or Reagan in 1980. Jack Kemp has been grooming himself for the role of high priest of the Reaganite church, but he has been unable to rise above the status of altar boy. Kemp revealed last week that he has borrowed against his federal matching funds (due in January) for the second time, a telling indication of his failure to rally the true believers. And in Iowa, Kemp is in danger of being demoted to fourth place by the energized Evangelicals supporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the Wingers? | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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