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Word: potion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squad's need for this potion was very clear Saturday afternoon in West Point, N.Y., as the aquamen came upon another shaved opponent in Army and fell to the Cadets by a 72-41 margin. The defeat dropped Harvard to a 3-2 overall mark (2-2 EISL, 1-1 Ivy League...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Unshaven Aquamen Fall to Army, 72-41 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...People think I've had a face-lift," beams Carole Herman, 42, of Penn Valley, Pa. "It's astounding what a difference it makes." It is Retin-A, the nation's hottest new anti-aging potion, and despite the misgivings of some dermatologists about the perpetual parade of glops and goos that promise a more youthful complexion, many doctors cautiously agree that the mounting clamor may be justified. "People have gone absolutely crazy about it," declares Duane Tucker, a Manhattan Beach, Calif., skin doctor. "When it comes to sun damage, it's the closest thing we have to a youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Antidote To All Those Wrinkles? | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

Finally a winning health nut gift potion...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: `Twas Twenty-One Days Before Christmas | 12/4/1987 | See Source »

MIDNIGHT. Buried Child, Sam Shepard. "There ain't nothing a man can't do," we're told in this Pulitzer Prize winning drama. Infanticide, self-multilation, heavy-drinking, cornhusking. One-hundred proof Halloween horror-potion. And who couldn't cuddle up to a play whose most quoted line is, "You ain't never seen a bitch eat her puppies?" Hello, my name is Sam Shepard. This is my closet. And these are my skeletons...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Bedtime Stories | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

...most surprising unevenness is in the drinks. Order a Bloody Mary straight-up in the bar, and you will get a weak one in a stem glass; ask for it in the lounge, and you draw a powerful potion in a highball glass. A gimlet in the bar at lunch had a barely perceptible level ofalcohol, and a meager pouring of premium Scotch was overpowered by ice. In a restaurant that began as a speakeasy and is proud of it, such vagaries are disquieting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: 21 And Still Counting | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

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