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Word: randomizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beckman and Paul Palandjian continued the visitor's domination into the doubles matches by taking a 7-5, 6-4 victory at first doubles. The random normally plays second or third doubles, but was moved up yesterday to allow Scott a half...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Netmen Down Army | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

Crack a Peter De Vries novel at random and you are likely to find a Midwesterner trying just a little too hard to keep from making a fool of himself among the sophisticates of the Northeast. The journey from Pocock, Ill., to Decency, Conn., has been played forward, backward and sideways, sometimes strictly for laughs and often, as in The Blood of the Lamb, to illustrate that comedy is not the opposite of tragedy but its Siamese twin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncle Gatsby in Connecticut the Prick of Noon | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...series of short takes from life among Buffalo's blue-blooded are strung together in what seems an almost random order. The play is certainly not bound by any timeline as it jumps from World War II to 1990 to the 1960's without so much as a CBS Newsbreak...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: A Hive of WASPS | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

...only people who respond in this fashion. People are usually confused when confronted by my difficulty, as they would be by any unusual situation. Knee-jerk wit is a common reaction; however, the results of my unscientific survey reveal that more Harvard students react this way than do a random sample of those not blessed with Centers phones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Know Your Target | 4/16/1985 | See Source »

...country, sneaking through the bush to Thailand via Laos and Kampuchea, or huddling in boats headed into the treacherous South China Sea. Viet Nam is now quiet and bucolic, the battlefields lush once again. But it is also an anxious, impoverished country, more than a little grim: the terrible random death of war has been replaced by the mean certainties of a police-state peace. Life may be better for most Vietnamese, but life is not good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: A Pinched and Hermetic Land | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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