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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. Slim. I am competing with the readers' affection for a dead strip whose body is still warm. The readers and editors are mad and don't seem to be in a mood for anything but the old meadow and dandelions. But until I am booted off the page, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: with BERKE BREATHED: A Hooligan Who Wields a Pen | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

A. People are reading, especially Donald Wildmon. They are probably angry, they are probably insulted, sometimes they are offended, but they read you every day just to find out how they are going to be offended for tomorrow and for the next day. Indifference is the enemy. When I've...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: with BERKE BREATHED: A Hooligan Who Wields a Pen | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Tom had dyslexia, a reading disability that bred frustration and a poor school record. "I didn't have any tools to study with," he says. "I didn't know what studying was." A grind for perfection, Cruise today often carries a dictionary so he can look up unfamiliar words. "He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

They shot for 65 exhausting, twelve-hour days (on a slim budget of $17.8 million), and Cruise would not trade a day of it. "At the beginning I thought, 'Oh, man, I just don't want to blow this. Every day I am going to give it everything I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Scooped up by the Chiefs as a second-round draft choice in 1987, Okoye averaged only 54 yds. in rushing in his first two pro seasons. But when coach Marty Schottenheimer decided to emphasize the Chiefs' ground offense this year, Okoye found his groove. The formula is simple: they give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kansas City's Gentle Giant | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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