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Word: liftings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of this newly defined species can best be spotted after 9 p.m. in gourmet groceries, their Burberry-clothed arms reaching for the arugula or a Le Menu frozen flounder dinner. In the parking lot, they slide into their BMWs and lift cellular phones to their ears before zooming off to their architect- designed houses in the exurbs. After warmly greeting Rover (often an akita or golden retriever), they check to be sure the pooch service has delivered his nutritionally correct dog food. Then they consult the phone-answering machine, pop dinner into the microwave and finally sink into their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Here Come the DINKs | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...solid goalkeeping of Whitney Robbins, kept the game close throughout the first half, trailing by a 6-4 margin at the intermission. But the Crimson ran off six unanswered goals at the start of the second half. Brown attack Sue Cutlass matched Joslin goal for goal, but couldn't lift her team to victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joslin's Six Goals Power Laxwomen Past Brown | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

...Kelfer was in uniform for the Terriers again--this time as a shortstop. Kelfer's two RBI helped lift B.U. to a 5-3 victory over the Crimson yesterday afternoon before 60 spectators at Soldiers Field...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Batsmen Bounced; Terriers Open, 5-3 | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...first-place finish in the Ivies would qualify the team for the ECAC Tournament, and a strong showing there would lift it into the national spotlight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laxwomen Laced; UMass Rolls, 10-8 | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

Atlas-Centaur rockets have been launching U.S. satellites into orbit for the past 25 years, but last week the sturdy workhorse suffered a rare failure. Less than a minute after lift-off from Pad 36B at Cape Canaveral in threatening weather, a $78 million, 137-ft. rocket disappeared into rain- swollen thunderheads and went out of control. A range safety officer hit the destruct button, and the rocket exploded along with its payload, an $83 million communications satellite. For NASA, struggling to recover from the loss of the Challenger shuttle 14 months ago, the aborted flight broke a string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Bolt In the Blue | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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