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Word: monsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initial jolt lasted only ten seconds, but that was enough time for the scary question to race through the minds of millions of Californians last week: Is this the big one, the monster quake along the San Andreas Fault that geologists consider inevitable? As it turned out, the earthquake was centered between Whittier and Pasadena, 30 miles from the San Andreas Fault, and it destroyed more nerves than it did buildings. Nonetheless, the shock reminded area residents just how quickly the big quake could come. Warned a California disaster-planning official: "This was a little wake-up call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ten-Second Wake-Up Call | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...shallow as possible. There are commercials for such products as Silly Pate, an hors d'oeurve that picks up newsprint, bounces off walls, and tastes good on crackers. An "In Search Of" type show called "Bullshit or Not?" proposes that jack the Ripper was really the Loch Ness monster in disguise. On a movie review show, the critics discuss in seriousness such films as "Frat Slobs" and the Swedish import "Winter of My Despondency...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Amazing Amazons | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

...rookie Harvard men's soccer Coach Mike Getman is concerned, the Crimson's NCAA Final Four appearance last season belongs to the misty world of the Loch Ness Monster, the Yeti and the Snuffleupagus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let All Old Seasons Be Forgot | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...initially, anyhow. The record business is primed for another monster hit. The great pop-culture dream machine needs the kind of lube job only an icon like Jackson can deliver. With advance orders of 2 million, there will be a lot of Bad around, and it is useless to resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Badder They Come | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...them piled into a blue Buick and sped toward enemy turf. There they spotted four teenagers, two of them girls, standing at a corner in front of a cinder-block wall covered with gang graffiti. Hagan grabbed a semiautomatic rifle and, with a fellow home boy known as "Baby Monster," strolled to the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life And Death With the Gangs | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

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