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Word: junking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corey Feldman) translates the Spanish on an old map; Data (Ke Huy-Quan) gets out of scrapes with his Rube Goldberg gadgets; pretty Andy (Kerri Green) plays the Death Organ; Stef (Martha Plimpton) socks a crone on the jaw; Chunk (Jeff B. Cohen) finds an unlikely friend who loves junk food as much as he does; athletic Brand (Josh Brolin) muscles his way through calamity; and his little brother Mikey (Sean Astin), a dreamy hypochondriac, goads his fellow Goonies toward their rendezvous with a storybook pirate. The Goonies is like a clubhouse where every Boy's Life adventure comes true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Way to the Children's Crusade | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...sales: $3.7 billion), Houston-based Texas Air offered about $925 million for the company, which includes $23 in cash and securities for each TWA common share. The investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert will help Texas Air raise the money by underwriting "junk bonds," a popular takeover tool. Icahn, who stands to make a profit of about $50 million when he sells his TWA shares to Texas Air, will probably go along with the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Daring New Flying Machine | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...tired of Plympton Street head over to The Book Case (42 Church St.) Post cards and junk gifts fill the top floor and a labyrinth of used volumes make up the basement. Look in the six-by-six foot "Room A" for occult books, "Room B" for religion, and go to the store's Annex (33 Church St.) if you don't like reading in the dark. The Pangloss Bookshop (65 Mt. Auburn St.) is another sure bet for cheap used books, especially in the social sciences...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Cambridge Stacks | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...decided to go with fewer, better quality items this year. Instead of giving out a lot of junk," says Marion Briefer, administrative assistant for the 25th reunion office...

Author: By John N. Rosenthai, | Title: Cashing in on Commencement | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

Kids born since the breakup of the Beatles, however, don't want to hear any of this. Can't hear anything else, at this tick of the clock except brassy, trashy, junk-jingling, stage-stomping Madonna, who has been world famous for almost two months. Just now she is the hottest draw in show biz. Michael Jackson? History. Prince? The Peloponnesian Wars. Cyndi Lauper? Last week's flash, and besides, if you wanna be like Cyndi, you have to dye your hair orange and fuchsia, and your parents freak. No, Madonna is the full moon you see at this bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Madonna Rocks the Land | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

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