Word: reels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rooster, increasingly aloof from his genial gifts. Michael J. Fox in The Secret of My Success: instead of the teen queen, a yuppie pup, too eager to make it, too hungry to charm. He was a scrubbed-up version of the rich preppie Ringwald usually ditched in the last reel...
...others gave up, preferring to watch their fellow swingers make mistakes. Some groups decided against the "old time stuff" and tried to slam dance instead. A few even attempted the Virginia Reel and began skipping and "do-si-doing" around the room...
...pressing Crimson defense then created several Cornell turnovers, allowing Harvard to reel off the next 10 points to grab a 31-30 lead. Co-Captain Arne Duncan, who finished the game with 14 points, pegged a pair of three pointers during that stretch...
...criticisms are such timeworn staples of conservative oratory that by now anyone who reads about welfare can reel them off from memory. The system is a monstrous mess: it breaks up families, traps the poor in degrading idleness and breeds a self-perpetuating cycle of illegitimacy, poverty and government dependency. It must be changed by training or even forcing people who get public assistance to become productive members of society. Move them off the welfare rolls and onto payrolls...
...computer to create words starting with p and containing a double z. The computer came up with several hundred possibilities, including Priazzo, now a best-selling pizza dish sold by the Pizza Hut chain. When International Harvester decided it needed a new image, Anspach Grossman asked its computer to reel off names that suggested a "leader" with "direction and focus." Presto. Out popped "navigate" and "star," which were then combined to form Navistar...