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Word: mines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walt Disney was of course more than America's story-spinning uncle; he was the canniest businessman in Hollywood. His credo might have been the Jesuits': Give me a child before he's seven, and he will be mine for life. Once this shaman-showman had seized kids' minds, he could raid their piggy banks. And on that mountain of pennies he could build an empire. His cartoons and feature films sired comic books, toys, hit songs (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, When You Wish upon a Star, Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah) and the ubiquitous Mickey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Their Banner High | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...singles from Bad shows that he's getting a little greedy. When I first bought "I Just Can't Stop Loving You," the album's first single release, I was expecting to hear another song from Bad on the B side. But what did I find? "Baby Be Mine," a song from Thriller...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Is Michael Still a Thriller? | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

...perhaps the kitchen will be turned to other uses entirely. "I'd like to put a treadmill in mine and use it as an exercise room," said a busy real estate agent who was buying her take-out dinner at Grace's Marketplace in New York City. It is just such foods -- and such satisfied shoppers -- that are responsible for the current flight from the stove. Eighty-one percent of American households buy take-out food within each four-week period, according to a study for the Food Marketing Institute and the Campbell Soup Co. These buyers are about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Taking Out, Eating In | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...walks into a police station and says he wants to report a murder. Whose? the desk sergeant asks. Mine, the chap replies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Big Twist | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Iwas walking in the dark and mysterious tunnels of Cabot House one day when an old friend of mine accosted...

Author: By William Pao, | Title: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

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