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Word: rallentando (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...cigarettes, or filtered either. They play poker sometimes, or blackjack, and one throwback even asks for a Jack Daniels. A group clusters around the seats behind and plays a game of Jeopardy on a laptop computer -- in answer to which the candidate's press staff, quite justly, chants in rallentando: "Boring, boring, BORING!" The journalists all have toys White never imagined -- cellular telephones, laptops, tiny portable television sets, all the magic paraphernalia connecting them to the New World that America has entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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