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Word: rambo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last night, Oklahoma was hoping for a crueler, but fairer script. Something like, say, "Rambo...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Weary Cinderella | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

...Robert Black Jr. saw it and ended up hiring Hearn to murder his wife Sandra for $10,000. Both were convicted of the crime. But Sandra Black's mother and 18-year-old son also blamed Soldier of Fortune and filed a $22.5 million negligence suit against the combative, Rambo-lining magazine. Last week a federal jury in Houston ordered the magazine to pay $9.4 million in damages. "We're sending out a message to other publishers that ads placed in a certain context can be very dangerous," said the jury's foreman. The - magazine will appeal, arguing that free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Loaded Ad | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...weapons that included more than a dozen U.S.-made AR-15 rifles as well as Austrian-manufactured assault weapons and Israeli Uzi submachine guns. Also found were assorted 9-mm pistols, infrared night-vision scopes and a sniper rifle. "They have the kind of arms you only see in Rambo movies," says William Jaramillo Gomez, the mayor of Medellin. "We are suffering because of a lack of international solidarity in the fight against drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drug Thugs | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...album's standout cut) could easily be looking at himself, a few years later, in One Step Up and noticing "I don't see/ The man I wanted to be." There is, in fact, much lyrical speculation on manhood in this record, as if Springsteen, disgusted with the rock-Rambo hype that surrounded him during the Born in the U.S.A. concert tour, decided to right the balance. These men are racked and struggling, and if one of them sings he's "tougher than the rest," from a song of the same name, he sounds like he's faking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs for The Witching Season | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...semiautomatic Kalashnikov assault rifle and ammunition from a garden shed, Ryan began walking toward the center of town, firing bursts and reloading as he went. "He was just strolling along the road, shooting at anything that moved," said Barbara Morley. Said another witness, Christopher Browsher: "He looked just like Rambo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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