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Word: rageous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Back to the Future goes further: this white '80s teenager must teach black '50s musicians the finer points of rock 'n' roll. Out-rageous! After a thunderous heavy-metal riff, Marty stares at his dumbfounded audience and shrugs, "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it." You bet, Marty. You and your whole movie. Now and for 30 years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Way to the Children's Crusade | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

Citing the vast gulf between the patients' ages, he remarked that Bouvia had a far longer life expectancy, she had more to lose. This point may be questionable; another point seems out-rageous. Nothing that, despite his frailty, the elderly man still had full use of his arms, he decided that it was wrong to mandate that the nursing home staff force-feed him, because it would entail "physically restraining him for the rest of his life." Bouvia's case was different, he noted, because she is mostly paralyzed, and therefore cannot resist the doctors...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: A Right to Die? | 2/8/1984 | See Source »

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