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Word: flirted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their sarongs and sashes. They do four dances, starting with a hunting dance in which a small boy brandishes a spear and tries to look ferocious. The coconut dance is the most fun and the most intricate, as the children clap halves of coconuts from hand to hand. They flirt, but do not touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Embracing the Executioner | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...year-old Persian Angora with silky white hair and green eyes. Fond though she is of Victoria, Harbison stops short of a blanket endorsement of the whole species. Says she: "Victoria is not like a lot of other cats. She is extremely affectionate, and she'll flirt with strangers because she wants to be petted." Any such offerings of affection are wasted on Senior Editor William F. Ewald, who edited the story. Says Ewald: "The only animals I like are the edible ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 7, 1981 | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Printed on heavy magazine paper, with a handsome color cover, Intro ($1.50 a copy) runs well-illustrated feature stories that range from lively to giddy. Examples: "If At Flirt You Don't Succeed . .."; "The Love Game: Winning Without Keeping Score"; "Practical Pets to Fit Your Life Style" (fins-down winners are fish). Regular departments cover travel, fashion, finance, food, music, film and books, and there is a column for single parents and a chatty publisher's letter by Douglas, who is prone to such breathless confessions as "I created Intro to solve my own social problems, but wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Platform for Singles | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...glad to see Procrastination. I swore I'd never go back to that fascist air head Organization again. But Procrastination urged me to flirt with Organization. After all, for me Organization was only Procrastination in disguise...

Author: By Robert M.mccord, | Title: A Harsh Mistress | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...their pleas for a return to morality in national life, Congressional Club operatives conduct campaigns that flirt constantly with the unethical practice and the unfair charge. The club and its chairman, Tom Ellis, the Raleigh lawyer who is Helms' most powerful adviser, last year ran their own candidate for Senate in the person of North Carolina's John East, the wheelchair-bound conservative known in Washington as "Helms on wheels." East used club personnel as his campaign staff, club mailing lists for fund raising and Jefferson Marketing Inc., a production company created by the club, to produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Machine That Jesse Built | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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