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Word: kidded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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What drove Dan Haupt, the Kansas Kid, the Midwest Mauler, to enter the ring with a champion who has left 31 out of his 35 opponents chewing the canvas...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Challenging the Champ | 7/1/1988 | See Source »

...Says Mrs. Bush: "I used to wonder why people had problems with their children. I just never did." Mrs. Dukakis has to go back to toddler days to recall any acting up, a refusal by young Michael to change mismatched socks. Dukakis remarks, "I was never a particularly rebellious kid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Childhoods | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...daughter of a poor migrant worker family in McAllen, Texas, Rodriguez will become her family's first college graduate today. Rodriguez has five natural brothers and sisters, as well as seven step-brothers and sisters. She is a perfect example of the Harvard success story--disadvantaged kid makes good in the Ivies. But the going has not always been smooth...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: A Life of Breaking Down Barriers | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...credibility faced its biggest challenge. The trick was to avoid doing a Jerry Lewis-like routine of a man impersonating a burbling brat. Hanks wanted his twelve-year-old to be one who just happens to look 20 years older than the other kids on the block. "The hardest part -- and also the appeal -- of the role was to strip myself of all the adult layers," he says. "It was to regain the kid's sense of play. I dug up memories -- or scars -- of myself in junior high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Eternal Cutup at Work | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...drug trafficking, you won't have young children hiding drugs ((on behalf of pushers)) for $100 a night or wearing beepers to school because it makes more sense to run drugs for someone than to take some of the jobs that are available. I don't know of any kid who is making money by running booze." The bottom line for those favoring legalization: drug-related crime damages society far more than drug usage itself...

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

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