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Word: macadamized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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While South Korea cuts back, other countries awash with orphans or abandoned children try to remove potential obstacles. Thailand, India and Peru are possible sources. Douglas Tifft and his wife Bonnie MacAdam tried the agencies, avoided the lawyers and waited a year for a Korean baby before looking elsewhere. "The process can be heartbreaking," says Bonnie. But when they applied for a Peruvian baby, the phone call came six weeks later, and they soon boarded a plane for Lima. Last week Bonnie returned to New Hampshire with five-month-old Rosa. "Once you have the baby in your arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: The Baby Chase | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...paper because of its pro-German sympathies and immersed herself in the intellectual and artistic life that flourished around the Cafe de Flore on Paris' Left Bank. Those contacts led to her first walk-on movie parts and, in 1946, to a starring role in Jacques Feyder's Macadam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adieu, Ma Belle: Simone Signoret: 1921-1985 | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...image is perhaps a trifle extreme, but for Punk, the archetype of the breed, ambition does not extend even onto the macadam of the mall's parking lot. Because he has a criminal record (for burglarizing stores in the mall, of course), he is pessimistic about hit future. "I probably couldn't get a job here now," he says wistfully. "Unless--" we imagine his dull eyes catching a tiny spark--"I go down to the other end, where they don't know...

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: Concrete Culture | 2/26/1983 | See Source »

...reason for the artistic explosion may be the recently opened stage between Out of Town News and Mug 'n' Muffin restaurant. Created by the new MBTA stop, the tiny macadam plaza gives performers another place to ply their trade in addition to the Brattle Square Island. Kalomymus, a bearded young man who presents his own version of the flaming batons routine, says another reason he and his cohorts have had more success recently is that the Cambridge police have refrained from breaking up larger audiences. "One cop did tell me the other night that he'd stick the torches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Can Put Me Out On the Street | 8/14/1981 | See Source »

Minnesota North Star forward Bobby Smith redirected a Steve Payne pass; Montreal goalie Denis Herron let the puck slip out of his glove; Al MacAdam jammed-it into the net, and 1:26 later the Canadiens had fallen for the first time in five years...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein and Jim Hershberg, S | Title: Semi-Tough | 4/29/1980 | See Source »

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