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Word: destroyers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children, she challenged reporters, during the recent upset over candidates' privacy, to leave her husband alone. "If my husband has committed adultery," she said, "you better not tell me, and you better not go digging into it. I'm trying to raise a family and won't let you destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Jesse Jackson: Respect and respectability | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...military planners last week were hewing closely to Cordesman's line and planning for contingencies based on the nature of any foreseeable Iranian provocations. If Iran were to fire upon an American vessel with its Chinese-made Silkworm missiles, for example, the U.S. would most likely seek to destroy the missile sites. Bombers aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Constellation, based just outside the gulf, could be dispatched on short notice. The Silkworms, situated in isolated spots along the gulf and manned by small crews, could be taken out cleanly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coping with The Unfathomable | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...bragged to some of my friends about how I was going to destroy her in 45 minutes or less. I even watched the videotape of the 1973 Bobby Riggs-Billy Jean King match for inspiration. That is, inspiration not to suffer the same humiliation as did Mr. Riggs...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Distaff Distress | 8/11/1987 | See Source »

...last week Soviet officials declared this solution unacceptable. The Soviets have also spurned an offer for "accelerated obsolescence" of the Pershing IAs that would allow them to remain in West Germany until 1992, when an accord would go into effect. In a significant concession, Washington also agreed to destroy its ground-based cruise missiles in West Germany rather than convert them to sea- launched weapons stationed in the Atlantic Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Major Sticking Point | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

After many attempts to destroy Robocop, Dick sends his gang after Weller with space-age army rifles that can destroy Volkswagon vans in one shot. The climactic battle that ensues in a closed-down steel mill is exciting and original in a movie genre replete with a thousand cliches and tricks. In the end, Robocop tracks down Dick in his corporate headquarters, which is guarded by a hilariously inept robot-tank which looks like a sumo wrestler...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Robocop | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

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