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Word: frayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the Bruin goal, however, the game's biggest offensive star was a dog that bounded onto the field, joined the fray, executed a snazzy breakaway and proceeded to bite the ball voraciously...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Booters Fall to Brown Again, 1-0 | 11/4/1985 | See Source »

Trying to keep Reagan above the fray, his aides made no changes in his public schedule. Thursday morning the President traveled to Chicago to continue his uphill battle for tax reform. On the way to Andrews Air Force Base, he told a staffer that the U.S. had been prepared to launch a military raid on the Achille Lauro to rescue the hostages. The President seemed personally chagrined that the hijackers had been whisked off the ship, foreclosing the rescue mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The U.S. Sends a Message | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

brutality with a special University committee. At least two students--but not Hoppenstein--were injured in the fray...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: South African Diplomat Won't Testify to CRR | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

...Harvard has entered the fray. Perot has said he would love to display some of the Peabody's collection in his city. The University may now work out a deal to make the man one of the greatest. Harvard benefactors in recent decades

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Ross Perot: What to Do With Billions | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

Welcome to the bullet-scarred land of morning television, the breakfast firing range where the three networks snap, crackle and pop for rating points. The fray has always been fierce, but the brawl for the top spot is now more frenzied than ever. After gradually closing in on Good Morning America for more than a year, the Today show has beaten or tied its ABC competitor five weeks in the past three months, thus breaking GMA's 163-week hold on first place. Though Today still spends most of its time as a close second,* the taste of victory brings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Snap, Crackle, Pop At Daybreak | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

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