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Word: fiercer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of alleged wrongdoing by high-level Internal Revenue Service officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders. -- The cable-television industry faces fiercer competition. -- Computer genius Seymour Cray breaks away from the company he founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 22 MAY 29, 1989 | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...after being cowed by such a mother, would so quake at the parent- child bond that she would abandon her toddler to relatives and head off to Europe to teach? What kind of child, growing up as the object of battle between such willful women, would prove at once fiercer and more forgiving than either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Willful Women, Home Truths | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...also quick to lash out as the debate grew fiercer, and, when accused of "sliming" a speaker with his criticism, responded, "I don't know what 'slime,' means--I didn't go to college...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Textbooks & Lizards' Tongues: Monday Night With Al Vellucci | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

...Lettice and Lovage, Shaffer's rambling but zesty comedy. The first act takes place in a dreary stately home, adorned chiefly by her fanciful tales. The last rings in the movement against modern architecture, a campaign / that, thanks in part to the patronage of Prince Charles, enjoys far fiercer support in Britain than in the U.S. To Lettice, modernism scorns the past and its romance. Yet what lingers from the play's three sprawling hours is Smith's one-woman parade of fussy antics and arch-nasalities to the dumb-struck wonderment of Margaret Tyzack as the horrified boss turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: London's Dry Season | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Ideally, yesterday's game would serve as a tune-up for later contests against fiercer foes. In the next two weeks, the Crimson will face St. John's, Adelphi and Brown. The Brown game, in Providence, R.L., is especially important. The winner will remain in contention for the Ivy League title...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Cat Comeback | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

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