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Word: cowboyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jeeps. Reagan will also dispatch an extra 34 military advisers from the Pentagon to join the 25 "training experts" already there. If you think the Salvadorean people feel the heat of American military operations now, try to imagine what happens if one of our military advisers get shot. With cowboy Reagan in the White House and General Haig at State, the prospect that such an incident may be used to justify an American intervention is unsettling...

Author: By Jamie Raskin, | Title: Financing El Salvador's Reign of Terror | 3/5/1981 | See Source »

...techno-cowboy's metaphor that borders on the kinky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haigledygook and Secretaryspeak | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...press conference yesterday, Travolta said that the award "could only help" his chances for an Academy Award this year as best actor in "Urban Cowboy...

Author: By Sandra E. Cavazos, | Title: Travolta Arrives in Cambridge, Accepts Hasty Pudding Honor | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

They have tugged the couches around in the Oval Office, forming a fireside rectangle for informal talking. A few of Ronald Reagan's gadgets are in place on the desk that John Kennedy retrieved from the White House basement. But a Remington bronze of a cowboy and the paintings on the curved walls are from the defunct presidency of Jimmy Carter. The huge grandfather clock installed by President Ford still thumps out its relentless rhythm. Beyond the tall windows, the sun slants across the South Lawn, where Thomas Jefferson had mounds graded to add visual interest. Fresh-cut flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Mingling of Old and New | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...alleged leader of the heist, Harold James Smith, is a strapping 6 ft. 2 in. and sports a bushy beard usually complemented by a cowboy hat and gold-rimmed sunglasses. His past is something of a mystery. During the 1960s, he worked in the civil rights movement with Stokely Carmichael. In 1976 he turned up in Los Angeles promoting concerts with stars like Shirley Bassey. His business association with Muhammad Ali began a year later, when Smith sponsored some amateur track meets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wells Fargo Stickup | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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