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Word: diah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gaza Strip, United Nations relief workers and Arab hospital officials said soldiers opened fire yesterday at protesters outside a school in Jabaliya refugee camp, wounding 14-year-old Diah Ahmed Jaber in the left thigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Arabs Killed, 21 Others Injured | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

...Comic-Strip Effect: "Whack-whack-whack-whack -- And suddenly it was in his hands, a great living thing that pumped and pulsed against his palms, pushing them back and forth. (nonononononono)." The Burlesque Locution: " 'Good ahfternyoon, deah lady,' Richie said in his best Baron Butthole Voice. 'I am in diah need of three tickey-tickies to youah deah old American flicktoons.' " The Fancy Juxtaposition: epigraphs from Virgil and Mean Streets. The Self-Deflating Jape: "I am . . . the only survivor of a dying planet. I have come to rob all the women . . . rape all the men . . . and learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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