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Word: mud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slipping and sliding in the Ohiri Field mud, the Harvard women's soccer team fell to the University of Massachusetts yesterday, 4-1. Despite several strong scoring opportunities, the Crimson (3-6-1 overall, 2-1 lvy) only broke though once...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: UMass Outclasses W. Booters | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

Velazquez's maturity is a sublime, intensive lesson in pictorial coding, and this, as much as anything else, has been the source of its fascination to other painters. In rendering appearances, every artist has a code of some sort -- a way in which the licks and smears of colored mud on cloth manage, seemingly without intervention from the viewer, to recompose themselves as hard shiny metal, warm flesh, wind-ruffled grass or the sweaty sheen of a horse's flank, all in the blink of an eye. But no artist seems as explicit about this legerdemain as Velazquez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Velazquez's Binding Ethic | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

Newly arrived East Germans at the Giessen, WestGermany, refugee reception center said yesterdaythey had been prepared to stay indefinitely inBonn's mud-filled embassy in Prague rather thanreturn home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Embassy Harbors E. German Refugees | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

...mean, I enjoy watching steroidinflated monsters without necks roll around in the mud as much as the next guy. Honest--I think the forward pass should assume its rightful status alongside Mr. Potato Head and the swivel chair as one of mankind's three greatest inventions. I think the Super Bowl is underhyped. I love football--really...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: A Man in Search of a Football Team | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

Actually, I do want to drag his name through the mud. Harvard students should not have to take the statements of their student leaders with a pillar of salt. Lee and any other council members who approved of the misleading statements in their ad have abused the confidence invested in them by the students they represent. A bit of righteous indignation is perfectly appropriate here...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Lies, Damned Lies, Council Ads | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

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