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Word: handbasket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...thought we stayed with [Harvard] pretty well in the first period, but after that we just went to hell in a handbasket," Russo said...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Icewomen March Over Elis, 9-2; Power-play Goals Seal Victory | 2/16/1989 | See Source »

...retired engineer who directed the Thor missile program in the 1950s, agrees. "After the explosion, they were continuing on a fairly normal trajectory," he says. "Even if you get a small leak, that hole would get bigger in a matter of seconds, and you'd have hell in a handbasket very quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for What Went Wrong | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

Haig's letter of resignation was the epitome of bad taste. He implied that the foreign policy of the U.S. is going to hell in a handbasket. Haig is and has been arrogant and petulant, both as an Army general and as Secretary of State. He resigned in a most unpatriotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1982 | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...live in perilous times--or at least splayed ones. It's not so much that things are going to hell in a handbasket; it's more that they're meandering about sniffing in garbage cans. Paulene Kael came up with at least eight great lines during the 1970s, and one of them was: "Unless you're feeble minded, as you get older you can see that the odds get worse...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Chivalry | 8/4/1981 | See Source »

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