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Word: folds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Mets fans were happily prophesyingvictory, Red Sox fans dealt with their team'smisfortune in different ways. One freshman, DavidBoit '90, stalked out of his room in the sixthinning, preferring to fold his laundry than tocontinue watching the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mets Win World Series | 10/28/1986 | See Source »

...completes each task, she crosses it off of a list which she keeps in her pocket. Her diligence is most admirable--never will you see anyone give a better demonstration of how to fold a basket-full of clothes in five minutes or less...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: A Great 'night Mother | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

Michael Carey, 32, is an Iowa farmer and poet ("The thing about farming is there is nothing between you and the world") who one day soon will fold his beloved notebook of verse and go down to his cornfields to meet his neighbor Jim Anderzhon. Anderzhon will be there in his John Deere 6620 SideHill combine. Carey cannot afford a combine of his own, so he hires his neighbor's machine. The two will talk the quiet talk of farmers for a few minutes, looking at the breathtaking beauty of abundance. Then, in the huge stillness of dawn along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Harvest | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...back in 1639, the college's first headmaster made the mistake of beating an assistant so viciously with a walnut-tree cudgel that he resigned, and the fledgling college had to fold...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Of Postage Stamps, Old Porters And the Wrong Anniversary | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

When GATT was formed in 1947, China was a member of the Geneva-based organization, but the country dropped out in 1950, after its Communist revolution. The move to return to the fold is part of Deng Xiaoping's bold campaign to decentralize the Chinese economy. Under his leadership, China has boosted its imports and exports from $29 billion worth in 1979 to $59 billion last year. In 1960, 70% of China's trade was with Soviet bloc countries, but now 80% of it is with the non-Communist world, especially the U.S. and such Asian neighbors as Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracked Door | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

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