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Word: meant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meant more to me that my father and my buddies could see me, than it was to play just a few minutes," Morrison says...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: A Player of Many Parts | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

...friends giggled and looked at me with that look that meant I had said something incredibly stupid and indicative of my Yankee upbringing...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Witnesses to Swaggart | 3/2/1988 | See Source »

...Winning the Outstanding Diver award meant much more to me than taking first on the 3-meter board," Greene said. "That dive was such a fluke thing that I can't worry about it. It will never happen again...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Nothing More Than a Fluke Dive | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...Though the party leader admitted that perestroika had caused confusion, he proclaimed, "We are not retreating one step from socialism ((and)) everything which has been won and created by the people" since the triumph of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917. Yet realizing Lenin's original vision, said Gorbachev, meant adapting to modern times and changed "international conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Borrowing a Leaf from Lenin | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...pair of skis was about to steal a gold medal from Switzerland's hard man, big Peter Muller. This gristly 30-year-old downhiller, last year's world champion in his specialty, had finished second at Sarajevo four years ago. Now, starting from the unfavorable No. 1 position, which meant having to carve tracks through the remains of a light overnight snowfall, he showed the world a run -- 2 min. .14 sec. -- that none of the next dozen racers could touch. Italy's 6-ft. 4-in. Michael Mair, a downhill winner earlier in the season, skidded off the course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downhill Skiing: Three, Two, One . . . Airborne! | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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