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Word: friskier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...sailor, Devon Rowlands, said it had been "a bigger deal when Suzanne Somers visited in 1981"), they were off to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (where they were given photos of sea slugs) and the San Diego Zoo (where the animals' lunch was delayed so they would be friskier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Majesty in Mellowland | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...Burma men clearly enjoy playing to a friskier audience--even if these fans have to clear out of the club by 5 p.m. There's lot more sneering and growling on stage than at Jasper's--still posing, but with slightly more abandon. "Fame and fortune is a stupid game, I play," Miller bellows at the crowd...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Mission Impossible | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

...Like an island, in the center. On the night I was there, one seal could not be persuaded to do anything at all. He swam around dreamily, often floating past the frantic ringmaster, his flippers folded across his stomach. The bears in their orange-and-blue sunsuits were much friskier-trained this year to imitate the Olympic athletes in various events. One bear kicked a goal and jumped around the ring in joy to have done it. Another, perhaps the most beguiling of them, stood on a Junglegym-like structure and endlessly got himself set for some wild gymnastic maneuver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Frisbee over Moscow | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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