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Word: raspings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brokaw's pleasant rasp filled the room. A profound sense of food notstalgia beset him. He was a glass of apple juice. Jane Pauley began to cloy, and abruptly disappeared. Nothing to read. He would kill the nurse if she ever again opened the blinds and woke him and took his blood...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Meeting the Enemy | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...saddest, thing about this album is that Forbert does have talent. He showed it in his first album and reveals glimpses of melodic and instrumental imagination in this one. His voice on both albums is a classic rock voice--a rasp both palatable and effective...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Jackrabbit Slick | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

...voice was a loud rasp. His piano playing was strictly fortissimo. His gags were not jokes, but a litany of catch phrases. Yet Jimmy Durante was a born entertainer whose manic clowning stayed in fashion for more than half a century. When "the great Schnozzola" died last week, America lost one of its last links to the golden age of vaudeville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A King of Vaudeville | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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