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Word: ol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Voice: "You know I love the stars and stripes, even more than I love Harvard. I'm looking forward to beating those damn Commies, and Bourbeau and MacDonald can help me do it. So I'm taking them for the good ol' U.S.A...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Burdens of a Tough Job | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...rode the glass elevator up and down in the Heritage Grand Hotel lobby. With its burgundy velvet furniture, powder blue walls and Christmas bulbs everywhere, I might as well have been visiting the Grand Ol' Opry...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Plastic Armor of God | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

...students windsurfed the waves, criss-crossed exotic continents, or partied hearty throughout the summer months, others whiled away those precious sun-filled afternoons answering phones in office buildings or memorizing reruns of the Brady Bunch. And some had the gall to do nothing, absolutely nothing, zippo for that good ol' resume...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: How I Didn't Spend My Summer Vacation | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

Harris notes that in 1981 there were also 54 million marriages that "just keep flowing along like Ol' Man River." In other words, only 2% of all the marriages then in existence actually ended in divorce that year. "If you take in marriages that occurred 30 and 40 years ago and combine them with recent marriages, it certainly wouldn't turn out to be 50%," agrees Arlene Saluter, a statistician in the Census Bureau's marriage and family statistics branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One In Two? Not True: A pollster disputes divorce rates | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...contras to help transport arms to Iran. As North later wrote admiringly to Admiral John Poindexter, "Why Dick can do something in five minutes that the CIA cannot do in two days is beyond me -- but he does." Another time North wrote, "a man of many talents ol' Secord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man of Many Talents | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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