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Word: laughed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the semester, we laugh at grinds, as in "Ha! Ha! We're having a great time throwing snowballs but look at the grinds marching to Lamont to study for their hourlies in three weeks...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Placing the Blame for Tension | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

Come reading period, everyone stops laughing. Grinds' outrageous study habits serve to shame the rest of us who have barely cracked open our postmidterm reading. I ran into a friend in Lamont last weekend who had meticulously prepared 20 (count-em, 20) biology review pages in four colors. This did not make me laugh. This made me tense...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Placing the Blame for Tension | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...havens and avoided the company of his Atlanta Braves teammates. But a small boy with a ball-point pen still found him in a cavern of the stadium. "Are you a Brave?" the boy asked. Aaron was charmed. "Sure am, son," he replied with a great laugh. "May I have your autograph?" "Of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Assembly Line of Dreams | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

WHAT prevents the book from becoming unbearably tedious is its sharp wit. There are moments in the book when the readers laugh aloud: a seven-year-old who chainsmokes steals the change he is supposed to be counting; a lisping grade-schooler is cured after doctors find "a button, a staple, a postage stamp and two buffalo nickels" in his stomach; a heated school election eventually degenerates into a food riot...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Despite Glimmers of Wit, A Novel That's Overdone | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...films. My sensibilities are a cross between Woody Allen and John Waters. In about eight years I'll retire from show business and devote myself to politics. I probably won't run for office, but I will do fund raising for people I believe in. People whom I train (laugh). I have plans for taking over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROSEANNE BARR: Slightly To The Left Of Normal | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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