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Word: moaned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offer our cheer For a term without scandal, and alcohol-free beer. Our pal Archie Epps deserves something new: A break from the grind, a year off or two. We hear you, Steve Ozment; too bad we're alone--About our education you care, and with us you moan Of arbitrary grading and professors who bore, So to you our thanks; of action let's see more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Hit List | 12/19/1985 | See Source »

...gentic reasons, surely, many New Yorkers are unable to deal with this fact. They moan and cry and point to population indicators by whose standards Shanghai is the center of the universe. They bite their grimy nails and refer to the rest of the country as "the provinces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From The Editors: | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...school at least once a week. I would fake being sick on Mondays so I could cut the movies I'd shot over the weekend. I'd put the thermometer up to the light bulb -- young Elliot does the same thing in E.T. -- and call her in and moan and groan. She'd play along and say, "My God, you're burning up. You're staying home today." When I was shooting a war movie and needed our family Jeep for production value, I said, "Mom, could you put on this tin helmet and this army surplus uniform and drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...idea had been planted in Reagan's mind by his friend and frequent adviser Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born superhawk, often described as the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose bold and controversial ideas have occasionally led some of his fellow physicists to moan, "E.T., go home." Teller's brainstorm became Reagan's dream, and the dream became national policy. In a speech in March 1983, the President asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that . . . we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Case Against Star Wars Weapons | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...seemed to shoulder the many burdens of the troubled region. He was visibly moved during a visit to youthful patients in the cancer ward of San José's National Children's Hospital. As he pinched the cheeks and tousled the hair of one young boy, the mother began to moan softly , "Touch my son, touch my son." But the Pope would see more of the ravages of suffering once his trip took him out of relatively stable Costa Rica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: To Share the Pain | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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