Search Details

Word: kidded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...kid who grew up in the Boston area is now the number-one player for the Harvard men's squash team...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Of Dads, Camps, Bandanas and Home | 2/22/1989 | See Source »

...Marcos, who is ailing with congestive heart failure, pneumonia and bronchial asthma, Aquino said, "I don't think he's dying." Aquino may have nothing to fear if Marcos returns home, but some believe Imelda might use the occasion to rally opposition to Aquino's rule. "Let's not kid ourselves for a moment," wrote columnist Maximo Soliven in the pro-Aquino Philippine Star. "She's raring for a comeback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A Plea to Go Home | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...decision] gave that kid riding time and the take-down," Peckham added. "It was a three-point decision that would have changed the complexion of the whole match...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Grapplers Finish Busy Weekend With Three Wins | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

...before his execution, Bundy, choking back sobs, said, "I don't want to die, I kid you not, ((but)) I deserve, certainly, the most extreme punishment society has." He had seemed to deliberately seek that punishment. In December 1977, while jailed in Colorado awaiting trial for the murder of a nurse, Bundy asked policemen which state would be most likely to execute a killer. Florida, he was told. He soon escaped from jail and headed for the Sunshine State. There he crushed the skulls of two sorority sisters in their rooms at Florida State University. Three weeks later, he killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Deserve Punishment: Ted Bundy | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...dancing opens with a traditional tap challenge, each man showing his best stuff in turn. Savion Glover, 15, who enacted The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway in 1983, is predictably upstaged by such snowy-haired hoofers as Bunny Briggs, Lon Chaney and Ralph Brown. Glover reappears in a breakneck gymnastic number, hopping up and down stairs, while his elders return in slow, sentimental sequences to demonstrate the traditional tap presumption that less can be more. That is in contrast to the basic notion of Black and Blue, which seems to be that more is more. Yet in the understated moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gorgeous Fun, but Not Funky | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Previous | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Next