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Word: freaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ironically, one recent victim of lead poisoning was a whooping crane, a member of a highly endangered species (only about 100 whoopers are left) that the Interior Department has been trying to save, at a cost of more than $500,000 a year. Arnett dismisses the death as a "freak occurrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Sharpshooter at Interior | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...trouble begins at a Philadelphia construction site when a young bricklayer and speed freak named Leon Hubbard waves a straight razor under a co-worker's chin. The would-be victim, Lucien Edwards Jr., 69, is black, dignified and not to be trifled with: he bashes a metal pipe into the back of Leon's head. The foreman, Coleman Peets, sees this fatal act as providential. He has been worrying for days about how to get rid of the punk without killing him himself. The police arrive and accept with little reluctance Peets' description of an accidental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Auspicious, Artful and Amusing Debuts | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

Trailing 1-0 in a game their opponent could afford to tie, the icemen rallied for a two-goal second period. If not for a freak third-period goal, Harvard would have broken a six-game Clarkson winning streak, forced the series to a mini-game, and perhaps returned to the Final Four for the third straight year...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Swimmers First, Icemen Second | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...just as Blair began to look unbeatable, Clarkson's junior Gord Sharpe knotted the score on a freak goal...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Swimmers First, Icemen Second | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...Ferry who remains the weekend's most important question and potentially the dark clouds on the horizon. Still hobbled by a freak accident that left foot sorely infected and sidelined from his squad's last two games, Ferry once again sat out yesterday's practice...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: In Search of...Cagers Head South | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

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