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Word: draggings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...union-busting, contra-funding, anti-black, anti-gay brewery. Other audiences Coors has addressed in recent years, for instance, have been treated to such insights as the one he delivered to an audience of Black businessmen: "One of the best things the slave traders did for you was to drag your ancestors over here in chains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Occasion for Pride | 3/6/1987 | See Source »

...notch to clean up. Legs out in a Chuck Berry Duck Walk, I hop around singing into my mop while the manager rushes about waving correction slips and time cards. Then we're in the service area, cranking out the final tasks. Both choosing the same moment to drag out an ice cream tub, we collide. Eyes bugging, faces centimeters apart, we break into a primal scream duet. Nancy joins us, and we all scream again, faces flushed, drowning out the music, and then finally collapsing into exhausted laughter. Closing time...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Primal 'Scream | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...close, applause meter-judged contest, first place garlands went to Elisabeth B. Reynolds '88, Rebecca Hardy '88, Amy R. Spater '88, and Laurence H. Pratt '88, Who performed in drag. For their performance of Aretha Franklin's "Respect," the four won a $20 gift certificate to the record department of the Coop. Pratt downplayed his role in the quartet. "Guys dressing up in drag is a pretty popular thing," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...Quincy House resident discovered this during her clerkship in the merchant's booth. "It was so embarassing," she recalls. "Because in our culture, we do not go out on the street and yell at the customer and drag him into the store and talk to him until he buys something, I was not good at this aggressive selling technique...

Author: By Eugenia Balodimas, | Title: Summer Thesis Research: It's Not Just a CFIA Grant, It's an Adventure | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

Those of you with the requisite number of fingers will note that this is our third (3) issue of the What. With this numerical advance has come a process of maturity: from eager freshman enthusiasm to sophomore disillusionment to the jaded professionalism of real vets. Every morning, we editors drag our aching bones out of bed, suck some nicotine into our already charred lungs, and swill down a brand of coffee best kept in government-approved drums with yellow and black warning labels on their sides. All in quest of the product that you, the comfortable reader, now hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editors' Note: | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

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