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Word: modernday (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...break time for him. Barring any glitches or changes of heart Dukakis will appear tonight on Nightline; barring any glitches or changes of heart, though, he stands a good chance of losing the election. Tonight allows him to put precisely such a glitch in the plans of Bush, a modernday Croesus...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Duke's Night in the Sun | 10/25/1988 | See Source »

...Delta Force is a collection of modern heroes, like the lonely range riders who galloped from town to town to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. For the Delta Force, the modernday righteous sheriff, the hang-em-high brand of frontier justice means criminals can't escape through the maze of over-bureaucratized courts or tangled international relations. Their kind of justice also means that weeping families get a taste of revenge...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: No Heroics | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

...intellectual Book of Job. By metamorphosing the Old Testament's prosperous landowner into a New England millionaire named J.B., MacLeish makes Job's bizzare ordeal relevant to a twentieth-century audience. J.B. challenges you, compelling you to feel, to think, to ponder the same mysteries that torment MacLeish's modernday Job: why do we suffer? are we the victims of an indifferent universe and a cold, complacent...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: To Tell the Truth | 4/30/1980 | See Source »

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