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Word: chews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...release of Anatoly Koryagin, a Soviet psychiatrist, who has been sentenced to 12 years in fail and internal exile for publicly criticizing the political use of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. He has been officially stripped of his psychiatric degree, physically beaten, and is now unable to chew or swallow food as a result of a hunger strike which he initiated in January of 1983 protesting his arrest...

Author: By David W. Bliss, | Title: Doing Right, Right | 12/12/1984 | See Source »

...cuts a strikingly distinctive figure. Generally tall and strapping, he sports a thick beard and, over his uncut hair, a turban wrapped of 15 ft. of elegantly coiled and pleated cloth. He takes as one of his names "Singh" (lion). He does not smoke or chew tobacco, and he eats the meat only of an animal that has been slain with one decisive stroke. In accordance with his religion, he at all times wears the five Ks: kes (long hair); kach (short trousers); kara (a steel bracelet on his right wrist); kangha (a comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lions of Punjab | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

However untidily, the Tigers chew on the Padres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Not-So-Classic Fall Classic | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

Angels Fall offers up some provocative moral questions and even takes steps toward answering them. Yet because the playwright bites off more than he can chew, the play is little more than a series of hackneyed lectures strung together by an essentially uninspired cast. Wilson and company might have done better to spend less time looking for answers, and devoted more time to hunting down a good editor instead...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: When Angels Fall Flat | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...world seem to have cropped out in the center of the country. The fecund fields of Adair County, Iowa, yield more corn than anyone can sensibly conceive (5,308,000 bu. made up of at least 400 billion individual kernels, any one of which makes a good chew for a boy doing nothing but hiking in the sun and tasting the earth's power). That is corn coveted by the adversary, the Soviet Union. Corn that would feed the hungry of Bangladesh if they could only get it. Corn that is so abundant that much of it is packed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Pay Heed to the Prairie | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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