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Word: laughter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today. In half an hour it is over &3151;except for the receding ripples of laughter and neighborly joshing. The musicians mosey by twos and threes toward their cars at the hall. For a moment it is hard to remember the funeral that must by now have ended at the distant cemetery. It is easy, however, to remember Albert Walters. If his days on earth had even a dash of the style of his leaving it, he was no man to be pitied.-By Frank Trippett

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: Jazzman's Last Ride | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...looked in vain for children. He couldn't find them anywhere. There were short people and people under twelve years of ago, but they had no child's vulnerability, no unstuck laughter. They cracked into the M2 buses like terrified bison running for their lives, for fear the school at their backs would grab them and eat them up one more time. It wasn't until he caught the downtown A that he saw what they had done with their childhood. They had wrapped it in dark cloth, sneaked it underground and thrown it all over the trains. Like blazing...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Ghosts in Black | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

There ain't no laughter, no hereafter...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Great Escape | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...chicken cacciatore, wine, and a specially-made pecan and chocolate buttercream cake... After the awarding of varsity and junior varsity letters and numbers, departing co-captains DEBBIE JACOBS and KATIE KELLEY gave out special honors to team members for their better splashes outside of the pool. Drawing the most laughter was one Kirkland House resident's present--a workout log book for Friday and Saturday nights, complete with spaces for pulse rates, hours of sleep, and calories burned. Also memorable was the king-size tube of toothpaste presented to perpetually-smiling freshman JEANNE FLOYD, and the "First" plaudit to sophomore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stenhouse Out Six Weeks; Felske Set to Go | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

...Turning to Gold" accompanied "Shattered" as a single in 1978, and presents a relaxed alternative to the frantic, depraved view of life and love presented by the better-known song. "Now that the love juice starts to flow/Everything is turning to gold," Jagger growls, forgetting his cries about "Laughter, joy and loneliness, and sex and sex and sex, and look at me, I'm in tatters--I've been shattered...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: It's Only Rock and Roll | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

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