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Word: gems (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catfish Hunter won his 200th game at 30 Vida Blue pitched the no-hitter as a rookie, while Ken Holtzman pitched a gem and homered the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Quiz Answers | 4/3/1984 | See Source »

Ehrenrich's strategy as a feminist is not to use rhetoric but instead to expose humorous non sequiturs and inconsistencies of the other side: it is the politics of discredit. Shortly after the above passage comes this gem...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The War at Home | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

...United States, which is included by many critics as the third bulwark of a modern "axis" of economic gain and military repression. The international polished diamond industry offers an important example of the trade axis. As one analyst observes, "South Africa is the world's largest producer of gem diamonds while Israel has the world's largest diamond polishing center and the U.S. the world's largest diamond market...Israel's biggest import from South Africa is raw diamonds exceeding $100 million a year." (8) The U.S., of course, is where the diamonds...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Close Ties | 12/1/1983 | See Source »

...know what do in a country, don't send in gem," he said, adding. "If we're really worried about communism in Grenada, we ought to do something in Cuba...

Author: By Lucy L. Arnstrong, | Title: McCarthy Gives Dim Review Of '84 Presidential Candidates | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

Leverett House: Perhaps the least known among grill connoisseurs, Leverett is an undiscovered gem. Set in the basement of G tower, the Leverett grill has the greatest variety of any grill, and according to the managers, the best quality food...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: The Grills Next Door | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

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