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Word: reds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policemen don't know this--they spray it straight in your eyes from inches away, and the only thing you can remember is to yell "Medic." They arrive with plastic jugs of water and boric acid, and after a few pints you can stand the smarting. Your face stays red for a long time...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Weekend at Seabrook | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

...gospel-spitting Melvin P. Thorpe of Watchdog News. Melvin is "the eyes and ears of Texas." He has unearthed candy-bar scandals and sets out to prove that, yes, the Chicken Ranch of Gilbert is indeed a house of ill-repute. Melvin, a particularly cloying character who sports red, white and blue underwear, would be innocuous if not for his southern-Bible-Belt style of self-righteous reportage. The perpetuation of yet another overworked stereotype eclipses the attempted parody...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Dead Solid Texas | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

Bucknell handed Cornell's Big Red its first defeat of the season, a 10-0 shutout in Ithaca, N.Y. Bucknell racked up 250 yards on the ground on the way to its second triumph over the Big Red in 28 tries...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Quarterbacks Need Not Apply to Yale | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...basis of that chocolate cake, he says, "I ran up the red flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Tritium Chocolate Cake | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...operagoers moved through the gala ritual of the Metropolitan's opening night last week, they were met with an unfamiliar sight. Television lights glared down on the huge Chagall murals and curving marble staircases. Cameras panned the red-carpeted lobby. On the Grand Tier balcony, presumably sophisticated first-nighters pressed around to gawk at Met Tour Director Francis Robinson's TelePrompTer as he beamed at interviewees. The occasion was a live broadcast to public television's 282 U.S. stations, as well as to Canada and Mexico. "It's like a political convention," complained one elegant buff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Met, the Moor and the Eye | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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