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Word: crossed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when excited. "It was so quiet and peaceful." But the Sleds have found anything but peace in Melrose Park. Instead, their new home has been under siege. Vandals have taunted them with racial slurs. They have shattered their windows, punctured their tires, torched their car and driven a blazing cross into their lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism in The Raw In Suburban Chicago | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...street four young men laughed and shouted, "Let the car burn. Niggers don't need to be in Melrose Park." One night as Stephanie set out for her cashier's job, several youths waved a rope and taunted her with threats of a lynching. Later a crude wooden cross was burned on the lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism in The Raw In Suburban Chicago | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...main upholder of the traditional nuclear family this fall is Roseanne. Pudgy comedian Roseanne Barr plays a working-class mom grappling with a dull factory job, three hyperactive kids and her lazy but lovable porker of a husband (John Goodman). Barr's sullen sarcasm -- a cross between Erma Bombeck and Alice Kramden -- is a cry of revolt against years of cheery sitcom parents. Says Mom after the kids run out the door: "Quick, they're gone. Change the locks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The New Season: Boomers and Humors | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

After picking up its third straight Metro Conference victory with a 32-0 shellacking of Holy Cross last weekend in Worcester, and being tabbed the number-one team in the New England area, the Crimson is trying to keep a cool head about its success...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Jumbos Visit Ruggers | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

...cross between football and soccer, rugby has 15 players to a side and is played on a field 110 meters by 75 yards...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: The World of Scrummage | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

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