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Word: flings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excuse me?" Distracted from my smooshing, I look up across the multicolored barrier of goody boxes and smeared glass countertop. My customer coughs again. "Uh, I wanted Heath bar, not Reeses, if that's okay?" Stifling an urge to scoop his eyes out and fling them into the goody pile, I glance down at the smoosh-in board. Sure enough, my--his--glob of cinnamon-nutmeg is sprinkled with the wrong damn goody...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Primal 'Scream | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...throwaway camera? Fuji Photo Film and Eastman Kodak apparently think so. Their new rival models, both announced last week, combine film, plastic lens and a shutter into one small box. After shooting pictures, users will take the entire camera to a photo lab for film processing. Kodak's Fling, which could be available by the summer, will sell for $6.95 and take 24 shots. It contains the 110 film used in Kodak's Instamatic cameras. Fuji will begin selling its Quick Snap this spring. It will cost less than $10 for 24 exposures and will use higher- quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snap It, Scrap It | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...that, after three failed marriages, he now desperately wants. The only solution in both cases is bypass surgery. The Zuckerman brothers face the same difficult choice, but for diametrically opposed reasons. Henry, the responsible family man, has to decide whether to put his life on the line for a fling; Nathan, the notorious womanizer and hedonist with money to burn and an immaculate Manhattan apartment, must risk all for fatherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Varnished Truths of Philip Roth | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

ASTORY THAT is "completely false and completely true." It sounds like the kind of paradox that the Mad Hatter and the March Hare might fling at poor Alice as she sits with them at the tea table, minding her manners. "Tell us a story that is completely false and completely true...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Tales From a Dubious Wonderland | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

...vinyl suitcase stuffed with clothes and stereo tapes, Olebogeng planned to take the train home on Wednesday. But pay in hand and spirits high, he went out for a final fling with a friend and wound up missing his connection. The next day, nursing a hangover, he hitched an automobile ride with a black driver. For 300 miles, he rode through the scrub veld of the western Transvaal, past parched cornfields and through conservative Afrikaner towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Back Home for the Holidays | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

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