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Word: limey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...given it real intensity as an image. Partly this is due to the "texture" of the photographs, which, at this scale, work like brush marks. The sky, shingled with hundreds of prints of blue (it must have been a strange sight for passing cars: the stocky, owl-like Limey tourist with the moon glasses pointing his camera at the sky and clicking away), is rich in a quite painterly way, while the copious, overlapping details from which the ground, highway and signs are recomposed seem to flicker in and out of focus, compelling attention by breaking the illusions one expects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Recomposed of Shards | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...takes them out to the deep sea, where Jack asks his mentor if he knows any seashanties. Of course, the venerable seaman responds, he knows "a many sea ditties." He proceeds to sing a "seashanty" that turns out to be the theme from The Love Boat sung in an limey sailor's accent...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: No Help | 8/13/1985 | See Source »

Watch out folks, the Bounding One, the Bod, the Limey, the Mighty Mite, the Sweet Kraut, the Duck, the Stoneham Scrapper, the Heartbreak Kid, Vaya Con and Smiley...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Harriers Go Fishing for the Big One... ...As Women Harriers Hunt Big Game | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Another possible occupant of the second spot on the team is "Limey" Paula Newnham. A world class runner, Newnham has had to battle with hepatitis and achilles tendon problems in her first two cross country seasons at Harvard...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Harriers Go Fishing for the Big One... ...As Women Harriers Hunt Big Game | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Another possible occupant of the second spot on the team is "Limey" Paula Newnham. A world class runner, Newnham has had to battle with hepatitis and achilles tendon problems in her first two cross country seasons at Harvard...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Harriers Go Fishing for the Big One... ...As Women Harriers Hunt Big Game | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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