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Word: excremental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even the thousands who squatted outside on the excrement-splattered ground could consider themselves lucky. "The ones who make it to this camp are the strong ones," said Miles Harris, a British doctor. "The other 80% are dying up in the hills, too weak to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: The Land of the Dead | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...expressed the attitude of many toward the mafia. A few days ago she was seen in Bogotá looking at the cover of a weekly magazine showing the dead minister's widow and two sons crying over his coffin. Said she: "Kill them, kill them! They are the excrement of our society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: War on the Cocaine Mafia | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

Some arms-control experts speculate that the Soviets had cut down on chemical warfare because of U.S. pressure. Some scientists, however, doubt that the Soviets ever used toxic weapons in Southeast Asia. "Yellow rain," they say, was actually bee excrement. Now, these critics suggest, the U.S. is simply using a more stringent standard of proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faint Hints of an East-West Thaw | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...dropped the widely publicized "boe" bombshell. Meselson and his colleagues argued that the spots on leaves and rocks cited by the United States' government as evidence of "yellow rain" and chemical warfare by the Soviet Union may be nothing more than bee excrement...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: A Glance at the Four Winners | 2/15/1984 | See Source »

...death last week of Joan Miró, at 90, was a vivid reminder of the antiquity of modernism. The old surrealist, whose work was once so startling to received taste (a half-century ago, you did not give paintings titles like Two Figures Standing Before a Pile of Excrement without offending someone), received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church; his death was attended by the priests whom surrealism, a profoundly Catholic movement, once despised. Miró was the last of the great modernist inventors, if you concede that neither Salvador Dali nor Marc Chagall, both still alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last of the Forefathers | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

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