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Word: em (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...Beach, which Simon & Schuster hopes to bring out this spring: rub potatoes on the back (good for soothing a sunburn), cover the eyes with cucumbers (eliminates puffiness), and to prevent dry skin, apply alligator pears. In short, real women don't eat avocados, they wear 'em...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 17, 1983 | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...gone into overtime," Cleary said. "We would have had 'em...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Undefeated Saints Take One From Icemen, 4-3 | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...tell you something about machines in American history. No, don't walk away; won't take half a minute. We may have turned into what looks like a nation of doohickeys, but that isn't what we had in mind at the start. What our forefathers (bless 'em) wanted was the land, not machines, the great, wide, beautiful land that was thought to go on forever. When the machines came clanging along, they were supposed to let folks enjoy the land more, the green grass and the blue water. Only they got out of hand, you see, until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New World Dawns | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...nearly ended--the Times buried Brooks' execution on page 28. Unless those with an interest in justice step forward soon, we will see the issue turned over to people like the pro-execution demonstrators outside the prison in Huntsville. They posed for the cameras with signs saying "Kill 'em in vein," while brandishing a large Confederate flag...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: The Poor and the Powerless | 12/14/1982 | See Source »

...ugliest woman I ever saw in my life! The girls taught me how to look after myself so that I was hip when fellows would come to me and tell me they were going to buy me clothes and make me a prostitute. I could laugh 'em off. I knew more than they did, I betcha!" Inoculated against the vices she witnessed, Hunter never smoked or drank and saved a nickel of every dime she earned. Every week she sent her mother, whom she revered, a portion of her paycheck. Finally, her mother told her to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Tunes from an Old Violin | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

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