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Word: mud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race for state treasurer has seen more than its share of personal attacks and mud-slinging on the part of both incumbent Robert Crane and challenger Joyce Hampers. They're both right. The Crimson is unable to determine the lesser of two evils in this race and makes no endorsement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote | 11/4/1986 | See Source »

...appeal to Rice from Gregg Shapiro, who begins, "I'm glad you gave this opportunity to express a personal concern. Since I'm going off to college next year, my mom says that I've got to get rid of my pet elephant. She's tired of him tracking mud into the house, and he's getting too big for the bathtub. Also, now that he's been fired from the car wash, he's not bringing in any money. But Renaldo and I have become quite attached, so I was wondering if it's possible for him to attend...

Author: By Sara O. Vargas, | Title: Yale Juniors Publish College Essay Anthology | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

...race for Massachusetts State Treasurer has developed into a contest of reputations and personal ethics, with both sides slinging and dodging veritable landslides of mud...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Hampers, Crane In Mudslinging Battle | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

Perhaps against the arch curves of French Designer Claude Montana or the dramatic drapery of Japan's Issey Miyake, Lauren's work is stick-in-the-mud. But Lauren sticks to what he knows and has never claimed to be wildly original or abstract. Says a longtime fan, Actress Candice Bergen: "He incorporates the things you've loved for years. I'm basically not one who is comfortable in massive shoulder pads or the trendy things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...vacant storage sites. Eventually the press corps was offered a field trip to a captured drug laboratory known as El Zorro. When reporters assembled at the air base last Tuesday, sputtering engine noises drowned out officials' attempts at a dignified briefing. Then DEA's DC-3 got stuck in mud up to its propellers while attempting to take off. Twenty Bolivian MPs finally had to push it out of the mire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia High Aims, Low Comedy | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

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