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Word: razors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leonard I. Ganz '84 of Lowell House recalls of his sophomore year: "you would hear a bang on you door at 8 o'clock in the morning, five construction workers would come in, smoking cigars, sit down on your couch and watch TV. Eventually one would pull out a razor and start scraping paint...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Days of upheaval | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...fleet-wilted Jaws parody one could see early signs of the Dante style, which keeps tickling the spectator to remember that, in Alfred Hitchcock's famous phrase, "Ingrid, it's only a movie." At the film's ostensibly terrifying climax, when a school of nasty little razor-toothed fish has launched an attack on a lake full of summer campers, one of the piranha leaps out of the water and bites the camp's pompous counselor on the snout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creature Comforts and Discomforts | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

Between the two of them, Christopoulous and D'Alleva have 46 years of cutting, shaving and razor experience...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Clipping Hair in Harvard Square | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

...trouble begins at a Philadelphia construction site when a young bricklayer and speed freak named Leon Hubbard waves a straight razor under a co-worker's chin. The would-be victim, Lucien Edwards Jr., 69, is black, dignified and not to be trifled with: he bashes a metal pipe into the back of Leon's head. The foreman, Coleman Peets, sees this fatal act as providential. He has been worrying for days about how to get rid of the punk without killing him himself. The police arrive and accept with little reluctance Peets' description of an accidental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Auspicious, Artful and Amusing Debuts | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...SALVADOR, the journey to the ballot box runs along the razor's edge. While many observers claim that Sunday's presidential election can do little to alter the situation in the war-torn country, two decisive outcomes are possible: the vote could either pave the way toward an acceptable solution to the civil war onset into motion a series of forces destined to bring the beleaguered nation to ruin...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: A Fork in the Road | 3/23/1984 | See Source »

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