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Word: dishrag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that began to change when he enrolled at Andover. His parents stopped hiding the strength of their feelings about Palestine, and Tarazi grew more sensitive to comments like a reference to Arafat's "dishrag headdress" in a letter to the editor of his school paper...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Identities, Tangents and Trig | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

DAVID LYNCH'S FILMS leave you dishrag limp and beyond commentary. Blue Velvet, his new movie, a "mystery thriller" analogous to Alfred Hitchcock's "family drama" Psycho, should come with seatbelts, or restraining harnesses, whatever it takes to keep the overwhelmed viewer from being sucked into all the utter energy on the screen...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: It's a Disturbing Life | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

...have Patches and Jangles. Meanwhile, my darling son Benjamin here brings home this kitten, Lucky. Lucky because he has a home. And I told Benjamin, 'You're going to be unlucky because I'm going to kick youse out.' " She wipes her brow with a dishrag. "Your turn, Benjamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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