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Word: comical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Actually, this was never much of a threat. After decades of heinously self-interested Cold War foreign policy, the danger that a single humanitarian precedent could send the U.S. down the path of no return is inconceivable. As we let the Kurds rot in northern Iraq, it is simply comic to imagine us committing our military to a policy of global famine prevention...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Making Sense for Somalia | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...Boss was back with bluster intact, posing as Napoleon for a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover. Sportswriters welcomed him, for unlike the drab slumlords who run most teams, Steinbrenner is good copy: a reprobate of Dickensian, comic complexity. And like Saddam Hussein, the principal owner gets to gloat that he is in power while the fellow who humiliated him is out of a job. But the climate has changed since George and the Yanks were last on top. Bobby Bonds makes 10 times what Reggie Jackson did in 1978, and owners say they need a salary cap to restrain themselves from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boss Is Back | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...Comic: You should talk. If your hairline recedes any more, you'll have to start buying floor wax instead of Brylcreem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's A Short, Bald-Headed, Potbellied Guy to Do? | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...Comic: You've got to be kidding. How can baldness have anything to do with the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's A Short, Bald-Headed, Potbellied Guy to Do? | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...Comic: I'm not going to worry; I'm only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's A Short, Bald-Headed, Potbellied Guy to Do? | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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