Word: scorching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power-play goals, from Tim Barakett and Lane MacDonald, help the Crimson scorch the Elis...
...Iowa could deepen if the three-way battle drags out and grows bitter. For months the Bush campaign counted on its broad support and organization in the Southern states as a "fire wall" against any damage suffered in the early contests. But if Dole and Robertson continue to scorch him, Bush may not reach his fire wall intact -- and the others must hope that the spreading conflagration does not destroy the party's chances of keeping the White House...
Anthony Kennedy is a case- by- case conservative loath to proclaim any sweeping constitutional doctrine -- and that, along with his straight- arrow background, is why he may win Senate confirmation. -- Congress' s Iran- contra report will scorch the President for failing to uphold the law. -- Mentally disturbed Joyce Brown wins the right to remain homeless in New York...
...discouraging fact that new White House paint would peel in sheets only months after application. The Bureau of Standards and the Duron Paint Co. advised stripping off the accumulation, in some places 50 layers deep. Four years ago, the east wall was cleaned and yielded its story for Seale. Scorch marks from the fire set in 1814 by the British rascal General Robert Ross were still visible. Lumpy mounds turned out to be exquisite carvings, done by skilled immigrant stonecarvers who had fled the turmoil in Europe. One good thing about all that slapdash painting: the sandstone was in excellent...
...players and yacht skippers; such new categories as arrests, court cases and resignations have been added. The column's length, however, has remained about the same, as have the extreme compression of the form and the sometimes ingenious portmanteau descriptives. Dinah Shore was once referred to as a "scorch singer," Silent Film Comic Harry Langdon as a "deadpantomimer," and Mickey Rooney as a "Hardy family perennial." No longer in use are the TIME-coined neologisms that once peppered the section, such as "socialite," "tennist" (tennis player) and the myriad variations on "cinemactor/tress," such as "cinecomedienne," "cinemoppet" and "cinemingenue...