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Word: sackful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal with the Saudis was in the works. He made no mention of AWACS, but Air Force General David C. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shortly convinced him that the radar planes should be included. According to some Administration insiders, Jones' clinching argument was economic: a sack of cash from the Saudis for the AWACS would hold down the cost of producing the radar planes for the U.S. Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AWACS: He Does It Again | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...outstanding defensive play of the game, a where'd-he-come-from sack of Dartmouth qb Frank Polsinello by blitzing linebacker Andy Nolan, forced the Hanoverians to punt from their own 14-yd. line...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Gridders Sink in Green Morass, 24-10 | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

Walker was named to the ECAC Division I-A Weekly Honor Roll along with Ivy Leaguers Rich Diana (Yale) and Hank Landers (Brown). Also named was John Andreoli of Holy Cross, who helped the Crusaders stop the Crimson last week with seven solo tackles, a quarterback sack and the blocked punt that put the Cross ahead to stay early in the fourth quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killen, Scheper May Play | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

...gradually, even as it continued to launch more public-works projects and import more luxury goods, Costa Rica got snared in the same dilemma that is afflicting countries throughout the Third World: the price of its exports dwindled, while those of its imports soared. In 1977 an 85-lb. sack of coffee produced enough foreign exchange to buy 13 bbl. of oil; today it buys less than three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Costa Rica: Raiding Grandma's Cabinet | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...ruling forbidding the dig, made a dramatic appearance on national television, displaying a few teeth and photos of human bones, which he said he had gathered while secretly scouting the area. Said Goren: "I found the bones with my own hands. I dirtied two suits. I have a whole sack of bones I could have brought with me." The mounting opposition to the excavations caused Begin to quip at one point that "you'd think Jews have enough problems without digging underground for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Bones of Contention in Jerusalem | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

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