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Word: line (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dress code in Los Angeles is assuredly not strict. So the other customers at the shopping mall on Santa Monica Boulevard that evening scarcely noticed the newcomer in a tuxedo who had joined them in line at the flower stalls. Neither the young lady in the decal-covered bomber jacket nor the young gentleman with the sheepskin vest over his T shirt and the pith helmet saw any reason to fuss over someone evidently doin' his thing in a tuxedo costume. No, what turned their heads was the new arrival's inquiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Long Way from the Rue de la Paix | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...hard to draw the line as to what percentage of sex and violence is acceptable? Are you comfortable drawing that line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Rev. DONALD E. WILDMON: Bringing Satan To Heel: | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...networks draw that line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Rev. DONALD E. WILDMON: Bringing Satan To Heel: | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...deputy state's attorney, describes as "the defendants' inability to keep their mouths shut" about the crime. "It was a badge," he explains. "It was something they talked about as if it gave them status within that group of guys." Youngsters offhandedly refer to innocent passersby caught in the line of gunfire between two gangs as "mushrooms." "That is callous," observes Edward Loughran, commissioner of the Massachusetts department of youth services. "Alienated is too weak a word to describe these kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Our Violent Kids | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...Other well-worn lines have not fared so well in the new hymnal, the most thorough overhaul since 1878. The latest version, 3 million copies of which are being shipped to churches, carries only half the 547 hymns contained in the previous, 1966 edition. Of those, 162 survive with rejiggered words. The most significant alterations involve not war and peace but the battle of the sexes. With women destined to form half of Methodist clergy early in the 21st century, the 16-man, nine-woman hymnal committee desexed many a familiar line that was deemed to perpetuate male bias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Singing Hymns and Hers | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

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