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Word: merriest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Make for the merriest, bright Christmas nights...

Author: By Abigail N. Sosland, | Title: Christmas Shopping From A to Z | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...particularly the Three Amigos, Elway's merriest band of pass catchers: Vance Johnson, Mark Jackson and Ricky Nattiel. With Gerald Willhite among the fractured, honest workman Sammy Winder more or less constitutes Denver's running game (quarterback scrambles excluded). A lot depends again on the arm of Elway, though maybe also on the foot of Rich Karlis. If Karlis had made a couple of makable field goals in the first half of last year's Super Bowl, the game could have been much different. The Redskins' kicking game has been so shaky, Ali Haji-Sheikh and Jess Atkinson were still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Tangle of Broncos and Redskins | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...clerk Bob Cratchit after waking from his nightmare in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year!" America's merchants this year can feel as happy as Bob Cratchit, for consumers are giving them their merriest Christmas for many a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sugarplum Shopping Spree | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...appropriate to an organizing committee furious to stay ahead of itself. Thanks to Yugoslav heart and volunteer labor, the matter is being accomplished. While much remains to be done, everything is essentially ready. For the past two years, thousands of workers have been blasting, digging and building heartily. The merriest have been 5,000 teenagers, sweating ten hours a day just a few weeks ago, leveling the ski-jump ramp, laying carpet in the athletes' quarters, working literally for a song at the end of the shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Getting Ready to Play the Palace | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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