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Word: dead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pass the Doritos and even change the channel. With Wuthering Heights there is no such option. The viewer is trapped for the duration of each number--songs which lose their cleverness in the first 30 seconds. The next two and a half minutes just continues to play out a dead punchline...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: No Brontesaurus | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

Shortstop Mike Pakalnis provided the third of three homers with a rip to dead center off new pitcher Tony Noviello, making the score...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Batsmen Become Homer Happy | 4/9/1986 | See Source »

...four hours after the first strike on the Surt missile base, American sensors again detected radar from the site scanning the gulf. Weinberger later said he "would assume" that Soviet technicians helped the Libyans repair the base. American planes launched two more HARM missiles, and again the radar went dead. The final American strike occurred later that morning: a pair of fighter jets hit at least one Libyan vessel near Benghazi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing in Harm's Way | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...black township of Kwazekele, outside Port Elizabeth, police who had taken up positions inside a liquor store shot nine people dead when the place was attacked by some 100 rioters. Two other township residents were killed in unrelated incidents. Liquor stores have long been the target of black activists because they are often owned by black officials who are regarded as collaborators with the white apartheid regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Shooting Spree | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...dark suit and flashing a gold watch and diamond ring. Asked if he could see anyone in the courtroom who had been involved in the parking dispute, Piecyk still looked away from Gotti and replied, "I do not." Complained one of the prosecutors: "His memory is missing or dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trial and Terror: A victim's memory is mugged | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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