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Word: overly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the customer hands over a ruble, the bartender gives him back 50 kopecks. Says the bartender: "We're out of beer."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter's Bitter Wind | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Even Franklin Roosevelt was posthumously excoriated for "giving away" Eastern Europe to Joseph Stalin at Yalta (rhymes with Malta). Harry Truman stood up to Stalin at Potsdam and hung tough over Iran, Berlin and Korea, but he still ended up being pilloried by a couple of junior Senators named Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Road to Malta | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

But in another, immensely important respect, the two men meeting in the Med this week have already transformed the superpower relationship: for the first time since the beginning of the cold war over 40 years ago, the American and Soviet leaderships have a shared interest not just in averting Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Road to Malta | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Future U.S. relations with El Salvador will be strongly influenced by how the Cristiani government handles the investigation into the killing of the six Jesuits. It has become harder to avoid the conclusion that only the army or the police could have carried out the murders. Witnesses have told of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: The Sheraton Siege | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

In the '80s American women learned that "having it all" meant doing it all, and some look back wistfully at the simpler times before women's liberation. But very few would really like to turn back the clock. As America heads into the '90s, the battle over abortion rights is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents PageVol. 134, No. 23 DECEMBER 4, 1989 | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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