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Word: getaways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were going to Czechoslovakia for a short vacation." Because they were afraid to expose their plans even to friends and family, there was no one to bid them farewell at 9 that night, when they piled their children -- Christian, 5, Susann, 3, and Katrin, 9 months -- into their worn getaway car, a 1972 Fiat. They packed just a pair of knapsacks, then took off on what would be a five-day odyssey to the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seizing The Moment | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...dealer-diplomats in LW2 are just your ordinary bad guys. They keep zillions of Krugerrands on hand to finance their chicanery. They have a getaway helicopter conveniently waiting in downtown Los Angeles at the end of a car chase that totals dozens of innocent drivers. Now if only this gang could shoot straight, they might rid the world of Detectives Riggs and Murtaugh (Danny Glover) -- and spare moviegoers further sequels to the loathable smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: We Don't Need Another Heroid | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

Wright spokesperson Mark Johnson said the Texas Democrat planned a weekend getaway with his wife Betty to an undisclosed location. One lawmaker close to the talks speculated that Wright would spend the time writing his final speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friends: Wright All But Decided to Resign | 5/26/1989 | See Source »

...Noid, Domino's says, but one of them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel about secret societies in an 18th century Parisian prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising Characters+G761: Annoyed with The Noid | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...however, am less intelligent, and less inclined towards Absolut measures, so I went for the grand getaway. Sixty cents and a change at the Green Line and there I was at North Station, poring through train schedules. It was just beginning to dawn on me that Commuter Rail doesn't cross any borders, when I heard a conductress shouting "North line...boarding Track Four!" Instinct got the better...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Post-Election Escapism | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

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