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Word: lurks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, say U.S. intelligence analysts, the U.S.S.R. is operating some 150 satellites, and perhaps as many as 120 are believed to be performing military missions. For hours each day, say intelligence analysts, Soviet Cosmos military satellites drift over the U.S., photographing missile silos and naval deployments. Other Soviet spacecraft lurk with sensitive electronic ears that can pick up telephone conversations in Washington, while Meteor weather satellites monitor conditions over key U.S. targets. Soviet infrared satellites watch for the telltale heat signaling a launch of U.S. ICBMs. At the military launch site in Plesetsk, 500 miles northeast of Moscow, crews stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surging Ahead | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

While outside, the bad' uns lurk...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Spacing Out | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

...which those cartoon dolls He-Man and She-Ra are descended from Hansel and Gretel, and how the dragons and tin soldiers of old have evolved into today's plastic dinosaurs and G.I. Joes. But it is not only the myths that endure: often, traces of childhood still lurk beneath the tough hide of adults. This holds true, we found last week, even when those grownups work for TIME. Editors, writers and reporter-researchers often found it necessary to interrupt their tasks to poke through the mountain of dolls, blocks and robots that was amassed for the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Dec. 22, 1986 | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...Parade, it is the hottest item of the season. Getting right down to bang-bang-you're-dead business, younger ones like to charge with StarLytes blazing, making the StarSensor glow and sound every time a hit is scored. Bigger kids (including daddies) prefer to lurk and prowl, hide and take careful aim. Either way, Lazer Tag is a more elegant way of working out aggression than the Rambo toys, and it sure is sleeker than G.I. Joe. It is the kind of game that could turn into a phenomenon. Keep your head down, and, oh, yes, more of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: O.K., Santa, Make My Day | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...stands, the Crimson has a difficult schedule ahead of it. Greater pests than the Bruins lurk somewhere in the Crimson's tulip patch...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: An Unbeaten Aura | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

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