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Word: jells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting by digression, challenging and revising every assumption presented and switching subjects to alight on a new idea before circling around to finish the last. The method is collaborative: a free-form Scrabble game that reflects her scanning, multitrack way of thinking. Gradually, eventually, problems are solved: story ideas jell, stereotypes are smashed, cliches dissolved and media-worn phrases reconstituted into acceptable headlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCES LEAR: A Maturing Woman Unleashed | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...household name and producer of consumer products, Kraft Inc., to Philip Morris Companies Inc. for an estimated $13.5 billion. Each year, Kraft sells $10 billion worth or products like Cheez Whiz, Miracle Whip and something called Frusen Gladje. Philip Morris makes items such as cigarettes, beer, coffee, lunchmeat and Jell...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Harvard's Double-Stuff Deal | 11/2/1988 | See Source »

...talking about something that destroys people's lives . . . to the point that they're no longer normal human beings." Reagan drew an angry picture of future decadence: "You drive down the highway, and you look up, and there's a billboard, and it doesn't say EAT JELL-O; it says TRY COCAINE. And your papers and your magazines ((would be)) full of attractive ads saying OH, HAVE A BALL, GET STONED ON COCAINE, YOU'LL NEVER TRY ANYTHING ELSE." Senator D'Amato earlier sardonically suggested some snappier slogans: "The weekend belongs to heroin," for example, or "This crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking the Unthinkable | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...little by little, the film began to come into focus. The results were just taking their time halfway through the season, Harvard Coach Pete Roby sees a team that may be beginning to jell...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Putting Pieces of the Basketball Puzzle in Place | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

...state seem like an outpost of Lake Wobegon. The Hawkeye State first embraced Prohibition in 1882, and the lemonade legacy remains: Iowans drink less liquor per capita than the residents of any state save West Virginia, where illegal moonshine is not counted in the standings. Des Moines is the Jell-O-eating capital of the nation. Cakes are still made from scratch: consumers buy ingredients like baking chocolate at roughly double the national norm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Folks with First Say | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

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