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Word: hagar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really hard get to New York City in three-and-a-half hours without doing at least 60. Moreover, it's very difficult to drive 55. I found that no matter how hard I tried, I could not keep the speedometer from topping 60. Without quoting Sammy Hagar, I'd venture to say that while I can drive 55, it's very hard...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Just Say No to 65 | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

...treat the same bond as negotiable. For all the complexities, however, surrogacy is one of the simplest and most venerable of the new conception options. Even the Bible offers a parallel (in the Book of Genesis, naturally). When his wife proved unable to conceive, Abraham impregnated her handmaiden Hagar, who bore Ishmael. There were hard feelings in the aftermath of that arrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Whose Child Is This? | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...professor who wants to lecture. This young, ambitious person is so intent on making a name for him or herself that he or she is determined to say something new--anything new. Sitting in class listening to this scholastic yuppie say "...the Bible thus foreshadows life, for just as Hagar is chosen by God to give birth to Ishmael, so will Sammy Hagar be chosen to sing for Van Halen. However, whereas the seed of Hagar will flee before the tribe of David, David Lee Roth will do his own album," is not the worst part...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Professing Some Hatred | 3/11/1986 | See Source »

Looking like a cross between Hagar the Horrible and Rodin's The Thinker for his role in the film Conan the Barbarian, Bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger is clearly no dumbbell. He will be working out alongside Sandahl Bergman, who steamed up movie theaters in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. Conan, about to go into production in Spain, is based on the 1930s sword-and-sorcery tales of Robert E. Howard. Schwarzenegger's main cause for thoughtful concern is the film's villain, Thulsa Doom, played by James Earl Jones, the ominous voice of Star Wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 15, 1980 | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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