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Word: casuals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President," said an aide, "let's go over once again the meeting you had with the attorney general during which you had a casual discussion about the investigation of Billy...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All in the Family | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

...attention the Astros received. It is a sobering throught that an athlete so talented can be stricken by a stroke at such an early age, and the fact that his earned run average for the season will wind up under 2.00 provides little consolation for baseball purists and casual fans...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Big Green Totemism and Other August Oddities | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

Browsing through the produce section of a Kroger's store in Montgomery, W. Va., in June, Mirhadi Seyedashraf,, 28, a senior studying engineering at the West Virginia Institute of Technology, picked up one white seedless grape to test it. Very quickly, the young Iranian learned that the casual shopping habits of the market stalls in his own country were not those of suspicious American supermarkets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Grape of Wrath | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...high noon in the tepee for casual fashions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Lone Ranger Meets Tonto | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...that anyone needs to reach for the ancients, or for theories, to connect the Olympics and politics. A casual scanning of events in the modern Games shows that for every example of exchanged T shirts and kisses among competing nations there are a dozen instances of international cheating, needling and foul play, all laced with as much nationalism as competitive nastiness. In 1908, British officials dragged the Italian marathoner Dorando Pietri over the finish line in an attempt to withhold victory from the American Johnny Hayes. The water polo match between the Soviet Union and Hungary in 1956 ended with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Games: Winning Without Medals | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

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