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Word: jeans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spokane, Wash., Jean Penna, 32, a corporate assistant at the Sheraton-Spokane Hotel, was driving to Seattle when she decided to stop first at her mother's home a few blocks from her own. Said she: "In the time it took me to get from my apartment to my mother's house, it went black. All of a sudden this powder began to fall, just like snow. It was 75 degrees outside and pitch black." When she left her apartment complex, she said, several of her friends were sunbathing. "You've got people out there sunbathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God I Want To Live! | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...were in the Preakness last weekend. The trio: Jacinto Vasquez, jockey of the Kentucky Derby-winning filly Genuine Risk; Angel Cordero Jr., a two-time Derby winner who rode Codex; and Jorge Velasquez, Colonel Moran's rider in last week's Preakness. Also implicated by Amy were Jean Cruguet, jockey for 1977 Triple Crown Winner Seattle Slew; Braulio Baeza; and Eddie Belmonte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Racing on Trial | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...years later the bill arrives. A French acquaintance calls to say that the woman, Nicole Guerin, has been killed in an auto accident, leaving her nine-year-old son Jean-Claude an orphan. The caller is certain that Bob is the father of the child. Bob accepts paternity on rather thin evidence and is immediately skewered by a dilemma: Should he clam up and preserve the perfection of his homelife or fess up and accept responsibility for his illegitimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Togetherness | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...successful American male, Bob would like it both ways. This raises a question as to who is the real bastard. Bob confesses to Sheila who, though shaken, agrees to allow Jean-Claude a month on the Cape with the family. He is introduced only as the son of a friend who has died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Togetherness | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...arrives, grave, studious and one heck of a soccer player. Bob feels stirrings of pride; the situation severely strains Sheila's extraordinary generosity. Jean-Claude is the sort of irritant around which pearls are formed. Still, when the Beckwith girls get wind of the truth, Sheila insists that the boy must go. There is the inevitable life-threatening situation and a conclusion with the distinctive aftertaste of artificial sweeteners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Togetherness | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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