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Word: freaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family cooking responsibilities are his, and he bakes munchies for weekly proctorial study breaks. He says that he "enjoys tinkering with bicycles," and confesses, "I am a news freak. I just devour magazines and newspapers...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Kit Morris | 4/17/1981 | See Source »

...Hilton made it difficult for the FBI to pinpoint the sequence of the multiple wounding. Studying the video tapes and the ballistics evidence, the FBI tentatively concluded that Reagan was hit after he had been doubled over by Agent Parr and was being pushed into his car. In a freak bit of chance, the bullet apparently bounced off the car's window frame and through the narrow gap between the open door and the car body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Shots at a Nation's Heart | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...spills it during Christmas dinner, the time of the year when servants and masters sit down together. "You cut your baby up," shouts Ondine. "Made him bleed for you. For fun you did it... You crazy white freak." Margaret, it appears, used to stick pins in her infant son and burn him with cigarettes. This may suggest one reason why he never visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Diamond | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...easily understood Japanese, his grasp of Asian history and his untiring willingness to belt out Polish folk songs on a handheld mike and dance with kindergartners at a Tokyo youth rally. In Nagasaki, the historic center of Japanese Catholicism, the crowds were larger: 47,000 stoically endured a freak February blizzard to attend an outdoor Mass. Eventually more than 300 people had to be taken to first-aid stations because they were suffering from exposure to the cold and wet snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Pilgrim for Peace | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...Wilder proves once again that Mel Brooks' waste basket is not a sufficient creative source for a movie, or even part of one. The problem is that in the one-dimensional logic of Sunday Lovers, in order for Wilder's character to be impotent, he must also be a freak. In fact, we learn that after his last premature ejaculation he attempted suicide and was committed to a mental institution...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Love Weekend Style | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

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