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Word: greened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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They yelled louder than they ever have. They were wittier, nastier than they ever have been. Joke after joke fell upon the green and white sea above the Michigan State bench...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Aging Years in the Course of a Game | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

While Harvard lost to MSU, Vermont fell to Bowling Green, Lowell was tripped up by Wisconsin and Merrimack stunned Northeastern...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Underdogs | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

...made autos back home for sale. The carmaker marked the occasion on a dock in Portland, Ore., where Republican Senator Bob Packwood and Honda's U.S. chief, Tetsuo Chino, drove the first auto in a load of 540 gray and white Accord coupes into the hold of the freighter Green Bay. Also put on board were 100 U.S.-made Honda motorcycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Driving Against The Traffic | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Long a staple of the Middle East tourist trade and a basic component of wardrobes in the Levant, the kaffiyeh came to the U.S. via Europe, where, in all its checkered permutations (black, blue, green, red or purple on white), it is almost as ubiquitous among the young as fatigue jackets. Yasser Arafat has worn a kaffiyeh, usually with army duds, for 20 years now, and the scarf became a garment of choice among the political protesters and antimissile advocates of the '70s and early '80s. Fashion, of course, mutes political reverberation. With time the kaffiyeh became politically neutral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kaffiyehs: Scarves And Minds | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...alien moving in on a nice, normal family and driving them crazy with his rudeness and irresponsibility -- whaddaya want, we had to spice it up, it's entertainment -- and the NBC guys were nodding off because the idea was too, like, subtle for them. So Fusco reached into a green plastic trash bag, pulled me out, made me sneeze, and I wiped my nose on Tartikoff's sleeve. Haaah! He loved it! Well, I guess you can tell, we actually didn't make that part up. Or the trash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stranger in A Strange Land | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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