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Word: boys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle-class neighborhood of houses and shops -- a few square miles of tree-lined streets at the corner of the city bordering on residential Hillside and semi-industrial Irvington -- was as safe and peaceful a haven for me as his rural community would have been for an Indiana farm boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Surprising Mid-Life Striptease | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...wonder that in her memories and fantasies, Linda pines for a figure of innocence, guile, power, vulnerability. Someone who understands and needs her. Something better than a man. A boy. A child. Her child. The child she conceived at 15 in a tussle with a fairground Casanova. The son she bore and, within two days, was forced to give up. If she can find him, 20 years later, perhaps she can reclaim the dreams of her youth and get a first grip on maturity. "Come soon," she whispers through the mirror to her onetime son and would-be lover. "Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Adventures of A Career Kid TRACK 29 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

HARVARD will have to learn the hard way that the days of paternalism and old-boy networks cannot continue. Women are rebelling against the entrenched male hierarchy here, which has tenured only 27 women out of 383 spots and promoted a disproportionately small amount of female middle managers to top jobs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poisoned Ivy | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

HARVARD will have to learn the hard way that the days of paternalism and old-boy networks cannot continue. Women are rebelling against the entrenched male hierarchy here, which has tenured only 27 women out of 383 and promoted an inequitable amount of female middle managers to top jobs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poisoned Ivy | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

...happened. "I thought it was just some kind of special effect," said Victor Thompson, an airman stationed at Ramstein. Recalled another witness, U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant John Flanagan: "There was a second explosion and more fire, and that's when people started running, screaming. I saw this little boy just standing there. His hair was all singed, and the skin was coming off his face. Nobody was helping him. We stopped the police, and they picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany Hellfire from The Heavens | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

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