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Word: deadness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steve Armstrong, home is not always mom and apple pie. Sometimes, it's taunts and dead fish...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Home Not Always So Sweet | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

First of all. George Gipp (former Notre Dame football star) has been dead for half a century. Besides, he got his victory...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Showing the Way | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...While controlling a tap at a crowded party, the seventh only poured beer for her muscular friends. For ignoring weasly but thirsty people like me, she's dead...

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: Ten Little Turkeys | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard men's track team left the peaceful confines of Cambridge and went down to West Point Saturday to battle Army. Unfortunately, most of the Crimson troops were dead on arrival, as the Cadets triumphed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Split Dual Meet at Army | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

James Warren Jones, by contrast, was something of a weirdo. As a boy in the casket-making town of Lynn, Ind., he used to conduct elaborate funeral services for dead pets. Later, as a struggling preacher, he went from door to door, in bow tie and tweed jacket, selling imported monkeys. After briefly fleeing to South America (a shelter, he believed, from an imminent nuclear holocaust), the man who regarded himself as a reincarnation of Lenin settled in Northern California and opened some convalescent homes. Then, one humid day in the jungles of Guyana, he ordered his followers to drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Weirdos and Eccentrics | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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