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Word: reds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RED FOR THE BLOOD YOU SHED, WHITE FOR THE COLOR OF THEIR BRAINS, AND BLUE FOR THE BLOOD YOU NEVER SEE--an old saying." The cabbie barked and stared ahead, focusing his eyes on nothing...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

RUSSELL LONG usually barges into Senate hearings as if he were entering a red-neek Southern bar. Last year, he swung open the doors to a House-Senate conference drawling, "I hope it won't give anyone a brain hemmorage to hear a new idea." Well Long has just come up with a new one that's bound to give Americans more than a nose bleed. He has gotten together with Al Ullman--the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee--to propose a value added tax (VAT) which could drastically change the American tax system...

Author: By David H. Feinberg, | Title: Not VAT Again | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...Red, who has traveled to the Far East, Europe, Africa, behind the Iron Curtain "and even Iran" with American all-star teams, said the U.S. didn't even know how to capitalize on the presence of American athletes in foreign countries...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Red Auerbach Touts Hoop Diplomacy | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...decade after Apollo, other space motifs also abound. Battlestar Galactica cruisers must have caused problems at some point--each bears a red label announcing "Redesigned Toy-Missiles Cannot Be Launched." Kind of makes you wonder...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Comic books provide inspiration for some of this year's collection. Mattel's think tank christened a green artificial limb, definitely a best buy at $3, "Hulk Hand." An identical red limb--Spiderman Hand--is available for the same money...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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