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Word: earthly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman should ever have to go through the hell on earth that I experienced. The rape was violent, and so was my illegal abortion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...word comes from the Latin for slimy liquid, stench, poison -- and the connotation is appropriate, not only for the AIDS virus but for the untold number of other varieties that have been preying on animals and plants since long before Homo sapiens appeared on earth. Indeed, the current AIDS epidemic is a grim reminder that these infinitesimal, bizarre creatures may be mankind's deadliest enemy. And scientists are warning that a perennial viral threat, the upcoming flu season, could be far more dangerous than usual -- more evidence that these tiny foes are responsible for a large share of human suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: AIDS Research Spurs New Interest in Some Ancient Enemies | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...best was just not quite enough. Darling could test his dream one final time against Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd. Dave Henderson and Lenny Dykstra, Boston's and New York's respective symbols of play-off miracles, kept it up through six games, until Hurst began sending Dykstra back to earth swinging and stamping his feet. Several centuries ago, the Sox were down to Henderson's last swing in California, and in the sixth game the Mets' turnaround wasted his tenth-inning homer that might have won. "I'm not going to stop and think about it," he had said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Small Delights and a Big Chill | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...time I found a pizza on John Harvard's lap," says Crooks. "Who on earth would want to feed him?" The veteran administrator also reports seeing jack o'lanterns hanging from the gargoyles atop the tower of Memorial Hall. "How in God's name did those pumpkins get up there? I've heard tales that one of our mountaineering boys who passed on might have done it, but of course I don't have proof...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Fearsome Phantoms Lurking in the Ivy ... | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

...grace of God, am an American, a proud citizen of the greatest nation on earth. What right does a puny, pathetic country like Nicaragua have to judge me? Or Eugene...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Numero Uno | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

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