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Word: buffalo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game's first minute, senior hooker Vaughn Buffalo bulled into the try zone to put Harvard ahead...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Ruggers Nab Boston Area Title | 10/13/1987 | See Source »

While running for President about a century ago, Grover Cleveland bumped into what might have been a fatal problem -- the public charge that he had fathered an illegitimate son by a tall, pretty widow, Maria Halpin, manager of the cloak department in a Buffalo store. To modern Americans accustomed to politics as show biz, it may be surprising to learn that Cleveland survived the scandal by acknowledging paternity and giving his organization a simple order: "Tell the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: On The Springboard of Notoriety | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...apparently made some mighty miscalculations of its own. Analysts say its fall colors, weighted heavily toward gray, beige and olive, were too drab for many shoppers. The chain's staples -- roomy buffalo-plaid flannel shirts, ten-button Tees and jeans -- did not offer buyers anything fresh. Even Banana Republic's safari look was running out of steam. Meanwhile, copycat stores seemed to be appearing on every corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falling into The Gap | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...comedy-drama. The technique does not always work -- witness CBS's Frank's Place, a languid, unfunny variation on Cheers set in a New Orleans Creole restaurant. More promising is The "Slap" Maxwell Story, with Dabney Coleman as a self-centered sports columnist. Coleman, so delightfully rancid in Buffalo Bill, is more sympathetic here, his thick-skinned pomposity barely disguising the desperate character underneath. The ABC series, created by Jay Tarses (Buffalo Bill, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd), is maybe too precious and in-jokish ("Six cliches in ten seconds," marvels a bartender after one of Slap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Yup, Yup and Away! | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...knows? By November I may even miss the Buffalo Bills...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Love and Hate | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

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