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Word: flays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flay Striker, a career counselor at WellesleyCollege agrees, saying, "I think there is anoveremphasis [in the media] on investmentbanking...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Harvard Graduates Buck National Trend | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...apart and coming back together after being seduced by the bright lights of the big city. Catherine (Julie Glucksman) leaves her home, Wuthering Heights, and the man she loves to become Madonna. She finds a new life gyrating across stage in a hyper-kinetic frenzy as adoring fans slavishly flay themselves against the stage...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: No Brontesaurus | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

...Garfein collage of crowd noises, sportscaster commentaries and electronic insults, it pits men against men, women against women and each against the other. The centerpiece is a duel fought in slow motion by two women who are borne on the shoulders of several supporters and who flay each other outrageously, but at a subaqueous pace. When not engaged in combat, the dancers, some of them with rakish topknots and ) splendidly authentic wrestling gear, mug and glare with a fine appreciation of TV histrionics that never becomes simple mimicry. At a recent performance in Boston, the audience fairly broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Seattle's Young Spellbinder | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...sate name. It's a name you can't associate with anything bad. I guess," says Howard Hay of Harvard Cleaners in Philadelphia. But while Flay says he thinks the name safeguards the company apiarist all image of inferiority, he say he doesn't think it helps bring in more business because "Harvard doesn't really distinguish fashion care...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: They Call Themselves Harvard | 11/29/1984 | See Source »

...Wade, "but my own wife voted dry the last time around, and we have a little wine nearly every night. She said she thought voting dry was the Christian thing to do. You see, it's a Bible Belt problem. It's spiritual. You need something to flay like a horse. You need a devil you can identify, say you've seen, and call by name. We call the devil whisky. I wish somebody would do a psychological study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: Voting Dry and Practicing Wet | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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