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Word: shooted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edward Cyr, a North Cambridge activist who came 12th in last year's council race, also said he would probably run. He praised Sullivan as "not a shoot-from-the-hip politician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan | 10/6/1988 | See Source »

...willingness of foreigners to step in and supply the dough. The Cassandras have been updating their scenarios throughout the 1980s: the overvalued dollar will destroy American industry; or, the undervalued dollar will hand American industry to foreigners; or, when the foreigners get tired of spotting us, interest rates will shoot up, and we'll have a recession; or, as the trade deficit narrows, domestic and export demand will combine to create inflation; or, the burning of Brazilian rain forests will deprive the world of oxygen, and we'll all choke to death; etc. But the sky hasn't fallen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Issues Deficits: Lunchtime Is Over | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Some of these men are the missing Black fathers who have had kids with three different mothers, the criminals who sell drugs and shoot each other in alleys, the high-school dropouts who work anonymous jobs and live in anonymous sections of the cities. Some of them are the success stories unnecessarily pointed to by well-meaning white liberals as "proof" that some Blacks can become useful members of society. In reality, they are individual men who have done nothing more than follow the different motivating factors that life has presented them...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Growing Up Black and Poor in Chicago | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

...more question. Why would Thompson bring a defensive-minded team to a shoot-'em-up Olympics? Didn't he know that the other countries were bringing guys who could make 30 footers...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Dear John... | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

Kourtinaitis beat the U.S. press with an easy layup 14 seconds later, and Willie Anderson's steal at midcourt and dunk with 22 seconds left made it 79-76, but the Soviets took possession of the ball rather than shoot free throws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Cagers Slamdunk U.S. | 9/28/1988 | See Source »

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