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Word: crisps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which was answered by a different person. "That's not showing up on the screen!" she exclaimed when told of the alarm. "You'd better get out of there fast!" There was no fire, of course, but someday we Lowellians are all going to be burnt to a collective crisp. Remember the boy who cried "Wolf...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Ground Zero at Lowell | 10/12/1982 | See Source »

...only setback came at the hands of BU's Barber, who overpowered Schulman, 6-2, 7-6 (7-5). Using a crisp serve and a strong net game. Barber spoiled Schulman's late rally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Outplay BU, 8-1, Capture Fall Season Opener | 10/7/1982 | See Source »

...beat the traffic probably went home and sat down to their Yankee Doodle pot roast and apple pie and left football out of their dinner-table discussion on how nice the Military Academy looked as the leaves begin to change, how nice the Cadets all looked in their crisp uniforms and shiny shoes and how nice it would be to win a nuclear...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Saving Best for Last | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...find popular favor. The most formally conventional piece Reich has yet written, Tehillim (the name means psalms or praises in Hebrew) is in four movements and reflects its composer's interest in cantillation, or chanting of the Scriptures. The music has a strong Middle Eastern flavor with its crisp, jagged rhythms and exotic melodic turns, which compound and pile up on one another until the piece explodes in an irresistible shout of triumph. In Tehillim Reich has added an ecstatic element to his musical vocabulary, and his work has become more poignant and expressive than ever before. The maturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Heart Is Back in the Game | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

...Maine's League of Women Voters, Johnson argues for a political compromise. Why not both dial and crank? Her defense of the crank is deliberately unsentimental. She quotes praise from a computer programmer: "It's so old it's in the advance guard." But behind the crisp march of her logic, Johnson dreams of a Bryant Pond for her daughters, now 6 and 8, almost as idyllic as the Bryant Pond of Elden's childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: Don't Yank the Crank | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

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