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Word: scream (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE'S SOMETHING very peaceful about washing dishes. Just you and the dishes, you and the silverware, you and the pots and pans. It's a rather solitary job in an otherwise hectic environment. There's nobody to hassle with except for the waitresses who scream to get their trays filled. A certain rhythm develops, an implicit harmony between the dishwasher and his dishes and the uneaten food he must brush off the plates...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Working Class Zero | 10/22/1981 | See Source »

...suitable companion can be found. It's about a French town that opens the doors of its insane asylum just before the Nazis arrive. Cheaper than the MX and more effective. This is one of those cult movies that people go to see 37 times before they scream "I'm sick of this shit" and run out of the theater. My theory is that every fifth frame of a cult movie shows an authority figure saying "See this movie repeatedly." I use a similar tactic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Streep Street | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...cross the street and observe the person's actions. Act suspicious, keep looking back, and try to put space between you and the follower. If he crosses the street as well, turn around to look, taking note of the sex, size, and features of the person. If he persists, scream, run to a well-lit business or residence, enlist a passerby, flag down a motorist, pick up an emergency blue-light phone, attract attention in the best...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Securing the Ivory lower | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Inflation leaps, the dollar sags and U.S. oilmen scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada's Barrel of Troubles | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...badly divided the Administration," says Roger Conner, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform: "The libertarians scream about getting the Government off the backs of the people, while the law-and-order types see our laws as a mockery. The pragmatists see all pain and no gain and wonder why the Administration got involved at all." Now the problem is in the hands of Congress, which is also badly split by regional and ethnic quarrels on this emotional issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Controls for an Alien Invasion | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

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