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Word: faired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This enterprise is more troublesome than it might seem, however, because the setting is Maggie Thatcher's Britain. The plot moves along as Omar encounters the racist tensions and youthful frustrations of the fair Queen's city, which threaten to rise above the surface and destroy the young Pakistani's sweet dreams...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Good Clean Fun | 4/4/1986 | See Source »

...believe in its reward. "It's all so superficial," he proclaims with annoying insistence. So Lucas seems destined to remain a loner, capturing bugs for the school terrarium. But then, the inevitable happens. Lucas falls in love. As a dubious knight in shining armor, Lucas must fight for his fair maiden in the dread land of superficiality...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Rocky Goes to High School | 4/4/1986 | See Source »

Brenda Wyatt (Roxanne Hart) is MacLeod's modern lover. She figures out MacLeod's identity, but is otherwise merely the fair maiden in constant distress, waiting for her four-century old knight in shining armour to rescue...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Ancient Swords and Modern Silliness | 3/21/1986 | See Source »

...system of choice according to grades--while undeniably a "fair" solution--would raise several objections, many of them by students enrolled in courses like Chem 20 or introductory Russian. Admittedly, this system could cause undue strain on long-standing guts...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Notes of a Lottery Watcher | 3/20/1986 | See Source »

Still not fair enough? How about Quadding the overweight...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Notes of a Lottery Watcher | 3/20/1986 | See Source »

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