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Word: inked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said and I would want my baby doll to be a real baby." The teacher wrote back, asking her, "How would you take care of a real baby and still go to school?" She answered, "I have a mom, you know." To this, the teacher replied in her red ink, "This isn't your mom's baby. Why should she take care of it?" No reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: Bianca, New Orleans | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...brawl broke out after the polls closed when P.R.I. officials physically ejected opposition representatives who were supposed to observe the ballot count. Elsewhere, there were charges that "galloping brigades" of up to 80 people had charged polling stations to stuff ballot boxes. Some poll watchers claimed that the indelible ink applied to each voter's right thumb was washable, allowing for multiple voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Too Close For Comfort | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...little and make a lot," says Cheech Marin, whose Born in East L.A. cost $5.1 million and grossed $17.4 million. "In a business where only three out of ten films show a profit, Hispanic films return more on the dollar than their mainstream counterparts." If Hispanic films produce black ink -- and they have -- studios will take an educated gamble on making more. As La Bamba's director, Luis Valdez, notes, "There are more projects in the works now than in the rest of the '80s combined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Born In East L.A. | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...volunteers wearing minimal white cotton tentacle costumes were cast as a school of squid. The school's role was to appear to be a large underwater mass and thus discourage the bad-guy shark. This is apparently one of the squid's classic defensive tactics, as is shooting its ink to hide itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: A Squid Fest | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...Vice President. "Tax cuts vs. tax hikes. I will not raise your taxes, period." Dukakis, who boasts that he has balanced "nine budgets in a row," shot back by pointing to the Reagan record: "This Administration has raised taxes four times in six years ((and)) given us more red ink than all the Administrations from George Washington to Jimmy Carter combined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Resort: Dukakis faces reality | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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