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Word: glorious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just glorious that time of the morning," Tracy says, adding "especially when you've ridden for about 45 minutes and you're beginning to wake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fewer Naps, More Laps For Cycling Association | 9/28/1984 | See Source »

Athletics is no longer a narrowly defined business, and the "scholar-athlete" ideal is a glorious but outdated concept. Once that's realized, regulations like the four-year college-football rule and Rule 48 will be reduced to a non-controversy...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: College and Reality | 9/20/1984 | See Source »

Other cities celebrate their champions, but Detroit glorifies and sanctifies them. Detroit is honoring its warriors the Kirk Gibsons, the Allan Trammels, and the Looooou Whitakers. They have given pride to our city and now is the time to enjoy this glorious moment...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Joy in Motown | 9/20/1984 | See Source »

Vulnerable, brave and loopy−a panicky paradigm of middle-age desperation−this creature is again on glorious display as Sarah in Love Streams. In it, Cassavetes also creates an answering male character, Sarah's brother, who has taken up womanizing in an attempt to ward off the chill he feels gathering in his bones. It is not an entirely successful characterization, partly because such males have become a cliché, but mostly because Cassavetes, the obsessed film maker, does not really understand certain less exalted obsessions that may distractingly come upon a man. His character neither fully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Excess Baggage | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...York, whose glorious Adirondack lakes are thought to be among the prime victims of acid rain, last week became the first state to pass a law to reduce acid rain. Governor Mario Cuomo signed a bill ordering industries that burn coal in the state to cut sulfur dioxide emissions 30% by 1991. The Business Council of New York State opposed the law, claiming it would raise rate payers' electric bills while not solving the acid-rain problem. The dilemma is that the pollution knows no boundaries. Indeed, environmentalists say that New York produces less than a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Rain, Rain, Go Away | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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