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Word: circularized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan and Carter sustained the conciliatory spirit of the occasion despite reporters' efforts to provoke them into fresh bickering. That very morning Carter had lambasted Reagan on the Today show for his lack of progress on arms control. So as the two Mr. Presidents toured the complex of four circular structures, television correspondents yelled baited questions about Carter's criticism and about whether Reagan had "caved in" to the Soviet Union to secure the release of Nicholas Daniloff. Reagan, in his inimitable style, deflected the question about the Today show by telling NBC's Chris Wallace, "I wasn't watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbal Bouquets: Grace notes at the Carter Center | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...those on the front line of the U.S. side seem to think that last week's raid put an end to the contest of wills between Gaddafi and Washington. On the day after the raid, TIME Correspondent Sam Allis noticed that someone had scrawled a message on the circular rear end of a Sidewinder missile stored on the deck of the carrier America. The grim inscription: THIS IS FOR MOMAR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Dead of the Night | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...sink is more than adequate for Michael and him. Beneath the sink all the drawers of the kitchen cabinet have been pulled out, leaving holes. In an aluminum pie plate on the table, cigarette ashes mix with the remains of a crust. The ceiling is water-stained around a circular fluorescent bulb. The walls are yellow, sallow in the darkening room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Hacking, say players, has a long and illustrious--if somewhat apocryphal--history. "In China they do it with a harder ball, in Thailand, with bamboo pieces; in Cambodia, they use nuts hackers report. "But you can play with just about anything...anything circular that is," says Zender...

Author: By David Cook, | Title: Hacky Sackers Get Kicks in Harvard Yard | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

Tying this together was lead guitarist Brad Shepherd, who managed to out-Hoodoo his fellow Gurus by sporting large circular earrings, a necklace of some unidentifiable carnivore's teeth and, most evocative of all, a cockney chimneysweep's top hat that could have been stolen from Charles Nelson Riley's Hoodoo himself. Shepherd dominated the stage, bounding forth to let the kids up front tousle his hair and producing a series of guitar sounds clever enough to overcome many of the Gurus dumber lyrics...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Gurus From Down Under | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

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