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Word: rum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place looked like a circus. With The Game as the event under the Big Top, there were many side shows. I saw some Harvard-Yale soccer, bumped into many friends, ate a UC-sponsored hamburger, bought a large load of peanuts and a half pint of Puerto Rican rum made by the company my great-grandfather used...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Contemplating Games and The Game | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

...Head of the Charles picnic drank soda and probably stewed in indignation. After all, anyone bound and determined to get behind the wheel of a car pickled simply drank. It's just too easy to empty a can of soda and fill it with straight vodka. Bloody Marys, daquiries, rum-and-Cokes, they all circulated--in tomato juice cans...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Head Games | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...look more Vegas-like now. In both casts, only the dancers playing the secondary role of Alonzo (Ken Nagy in Washington, Stephen Moore touring) achieve the cool detachment of another species. The singing, although always vibrant, is uneven. In the peripatetic cast Andy Spangler glows as the Elvis-like Rum Tum Tugger and Leslie Ellis is haunting as Grizabella, the faded glamour cat, but in the Washington troupe the performers in those roles, Douglas Graham and Janene Lovullo, do not measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: How Does Broadway Play in Peoria? | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...Venetian boots, who wanted the Constitution specifically to exempt the game of rounders from the interstate commerce clause. Shy, soft-spoken and constantly embarrassed by his own meager war record, Madison found a delegation of Revolutionary War veterans harder to ignore. Confronted with half a dozen strapping backwoodsmen with rum on their breath and Valley Forge on their lips, he reluctantly agreed to support their fight to make all pensions forever exempt from taxation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIVING What If TV Had Been There? | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...economy has a rough road ahead. -- A family feud rocks Bacardi' s rum empire. -- Fake fat promises plump profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page May 25, 1987 | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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