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Word: ferrari (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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They used different modes of transportation. The Adelphi lacrosse team was riding in a golf cart. Harvard was sitting behind the wheel of a Ferrari...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Traveling in Two Directions | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

...shifted weight from ski to ski. La Bomba calls himself the "greatest" and resembles a pair of young lovers holding hands, except that there is just one of him. It is impossible to take offense. The new phenom announced happily that his rich father would buy him a Ferrari for his win, and no one seemed to mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Champagne Runs | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Three weeks ago the U.S. made its largest sale ever of a single confiscated item -- a red 1963 Ferrari racer, one of only 32 of the special twelve- cylinder model in existence. Federal prosecutors claimed that a slain narcotics smuggler bought the Ferrari with drug proceeds ($345,000 in cash carried in a knapsack). He subsequently gave the car to a Connecticut mechanic for services rendered. The feds seized the car and, when the mechanic was unable to prove that he had no reason to suspect a crime connection, agreed to give him a mere $135,000 as a settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Filling Uncle Sam's Auction House | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

Minkow made himself over too. A scrawny, hyperactive youth, he became a body builder to attract girls. "I was no James Bond in high school," he told an interviewer. "I wanted the attention." He drove a bright red Ferrari, lived a bachelor's life in a million-dollar home and lolled around in a backyard swimming pool with a big black Z on the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zzzz Best May Be ZZZZ | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

MANY OF God's creatures are built for speed: The lean and hungry cheetah. The soaring spine-tailed swift. And let us not forget the turbo-charged Ferrari 380 GTS. But fast as they are, not one of these will able to touch my heels the moment that $64,000 piece of parchment touches my palms. Like a bat out of hell, Alyshiba out of the gate or Larry Bird out of the back court, I will be out of Harvard so fast it will make your head swim and your crops wilt...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Like a Bat Out of Hell | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

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