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Word: heels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...optimism fades to concern with mention of the team's achille's heel: injuries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Squads Hoping to Ward Off Outdoor Injuries | 4/1/1986 | See Source »

...always disappointing when an engaging heel abandons his unprinciples to embrace moral uplift. Especially since Power has already made its points about the manipulation of political imagery in the sharply satirical sequences that show Pete creating TV spots for his candidates --sequences full of conviction, energy and a knowing cynicism that are missing from the film's more exhortatory passages. Around these later commercials for responsibility the air of the obligatory ever hovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Cabbageheads and Kingfish Power | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...caught it and shot it in one motion," said Manhattan assistant coach Bob Dellebovi describing a Tar Heel's fluid motions during his team's loss to UNC. "There was nothing our kids could...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: No Doubt About It | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...again, going out without asking. Lori calls after him. The session winds up. The other children are putting away their Magic Markers. Lori calls, "Michael, you'd better be back in this room by the count of five." Michael re-enters at four, crushes a plastic cup under his heel, crumples his picture and throws it into the trash can. Lori stares at him. He runs toward Ralphy and slaps Ralphy's self-portrait out of his hand. He laughs, slams the door to the room from the inside. As the other children slip on their jackets, Michael stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...weakness?" Last month, according to a privately communicated eyewitness report from one shopper, a woman standing at the front of a liquor store line in Moscow was knocked off her feet by a surging crowd when the shop doors opened. Before she could get to her feet, the spike heel of another woman shopper pierced her skull, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Fighting the Battle of the Bottle | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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