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Word: prowls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasion is always a night's adventure. Dour guards, who prowl the fenced perimeters at other times, paste on smiles and put on star-spangled uniforms. The heavy doors that are usually closed are wide open. But this night there was something unusual afoot. The commemoration of the Russian Revolution may have proved to be the first significant social and diplomatic event of the soon-to-arrive Reagan Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Vodka Toast for Reagan | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...mask of death by the story's conclusion. It's a touching performance, but one wonders if an actress of Dunaway's magnitude is required to deliver it. Daniel Blank (David Dukes), the killer who strikes concurrent with her periods of medical crisis, suffers periodic fits that make him prowl the city, striking down victims with a particularly vicious mountain climber's icepick. Yet here too is caricature--the screenplay never sufficiently explains the root of his troubles, nor why he feels compelled to shave his head, wear a wig, or sleep under a shelf in his walk-in-closet...

Author: By Geoffrey T. Gibbs, | Title: Graceless | 10/31/1980 | See Source »

Although high school and college students frequently prowl on the grounds of Mt. Auburn Cemetery, few know its historical significance. An enormous number of famous people--professors, Massachusetts politicians, authors, artists and the like are buried there, in the nation's first open-space garden cemetery...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: First' From a Cambridge Original | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...children. Her unshackled intellect hasn't destroyed her; it's made her one of the hottest magazine writers in the country. But as the essays in this first collection demonstrate, she can be what the church fathers had feared: a predator in prose. She's always on the prowl for the villains that disfigured her youth hokum, slovenly thought, and moral spinelessness, the national pastimes of American...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: A Predator in Prose | 9/25/1980 | See Source »

Last week, during a subcommittee-level bargaining session, Walesa strolled to the gate to bring those outside up to date. Surrounded by bodyguards and a gaggle of photographers and television cameramen, he looked like a U.S. political candidate on the prowl for votes. "Ladies and gentlemen, Lech Walesa," a man with a microphone announced, and the crowd let go with a lusty "hip, hip, hurrah!" Walesa told the crowd that although the government was trying to undermine the workers, "your strike committee is participating fully in your strike, and in your effort for a victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Honorable Mr. Chairman | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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