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Word: cordes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days, Ronald Reagan got no major legislation passed; not a single program became operative, and he held only two press conferences in two months. He is, however, the only President in the past ten years to have worn white tie and tails three times, chopped half a cord of wood, ridden a horse, shortened the Inaugural parade, received a ton of jelly beans, got eight pints of new blood and floated enough good humor to buoy, after a 17-year drought, the hopes of those people who compile books on presidential wit. But these things are not the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: First Act in a Long Drama | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

Garber's troubles mounted after he thought he'd caught the Crimson with its guard down. Or rather, with its strings long. The UNH coach accused Harvard defender Eric Mendelman of having more than the allowed two inches of extra cord protruding from his stick. But the referees checked it out and said the stick was okay...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Laxmen Baffle UNH, 12-7; Forbush Scores Three | 4/23/1981 | See Source »

Last week, police investigated 30 reports of larceny. Total losses in the thefts was estimated at $6841.11. The crimes ranged from a 1976 Fiat Spider stolen from the IAB parking lot to a phone cut from its extension cord at the Freshman Union and included seven missing bicycles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Report | 4/18/1981 | See Source »

Vengeance begins. She trusses him up with an extension cord and rope and parks him in a screened fireplace that looks like an animal's cage. She kicks him viciously in the groin, pokes him with a broom handle, soaks him with ammonia and singes his arms and hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Kentucky Derby | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...screening process tests for neural tube defects, which affect the development of the brain and spinal cord. It has been used extensively in Great Britain and on a small scale in the United States, where it is awaiting regulatory approval...

Author: By Jeffrey B. Chasnow, | Title: Doctors Screen Birth Defects | 3/11/1981 | See Source »

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