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Word: coloring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blacks should have been more concerned about Willie Horton the criminal. He escaped from prison and tortured a married couple, raping the woman several times and repeatedly pistol-whipping her husband. I'm less concerned with his color than with his actions and the program that allowed him to escape. Nonetheless, many people believe that this series of ads led to the increased racial voting around the country...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Voting Along Racial Lines | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

...psychological theory, however, failed for the simple reason that now all students equate those blue books with exams, and exams with frustration, anxiety and fear. Those ugly, lined, short pages loosely pressed together with weak staples in that putrid blue color remind us all of what we want to forget--exams...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Hayfever in Capitalism's Garden of Eden | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...white backdrop. With the exaggerated staginess of a Looney Tune, he turned to the audience, pressed a finger to his lips, as if to say "Shhh!" and tiptoed out. Only then did thumping rock music explode, spotlights ignite and towering models burst onto the runway in kaleidoscopic color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Original American In Paris: PATRICK KELLY | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...home, and he sidesteps the question with an ode to his dad's shoes (black-and-white pony skin). Kelly wants to remember Mississippi merry, not Mississippi burning. But one memory sticks: when secondhand books were shipped over from the white elementary school across town, he said, "they'd color in the faces of Dick and Sally so they'd be black when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Original American In Paris: PATRICK KELLY | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...past five years. Small wonder: the price of gasoline, adjusted for inflation, is at its 1965 level. Among customers choosing a recreational vehicle, says Bill Jocoy, a salesman at Northwoods RV Supermarket in Lansing, Mich., mileage per gallon ranks only fifth or sixth among their priorities, after color and floor plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Step on The Gas, Pay the Price | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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