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Word: counts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...games don't count in the standings but they count perhps where it is most important: in the hearts of the moms, dads, roommates and oldsters who have been flocking to see these teams for, well, forever...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Beanpot '86: A Boston Hockey Tradition Continues | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...felony charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail and a $250,000 fine for each count, according...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Porn Trial Set for Feb. 4 | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

Michael heads for the bathroom again, going out without asking. Lori calls after him. The session winds up. The other children are putting away their Magic Markers. Lori calls, "Michael, you'd better be back in this room by the count of five." Michael re-enters at four, crushes a plastic cup under his heel, crumples his picture and throws it into the trash can. Lori stares at him. He runs toward Ralphy and slaps Ralphy's self-portrait out of his hand. He laughs, slams the door to the room from the inside. As the other children slip...

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

...When we moved here we counted 28 mice, and we didn't count twice. I got one cat. He died. So I was looking for a new cat now because I had mice. And I was very upset for the kids. I went all over looking. Somebody told me they were giving away cats over at the clinic at 59th Street. I went and I got this one here, which was named Mollie, and I changed it to Jangles. When I got back, there was my girlfriend's friend waiting for me with another cat, Patches, which...

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

...polls had not yet closed last week in Guyana when familiar cries of "fraud" rang out. As in every election in the South American country since it was granted independence from Britain in 1966, opposition politicians and others charged that the polling and the vote count were rigged to favor the ruling People's National Congress. Indeed, the margin of victory was improbably large, with the P.N.C. taking 76% of the vote and six opposition parties dividing the rest. The win gives the P.N.C. 42 of the 53 seats in the national legislature and allows President Hugh Desmond Hoyte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guyana: No Airy-Fairy Socialist | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

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