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Word: shopped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some stores see increases of as much as 300 percent on the days preceeding The Game, according to Elliot S. Brause, owner of the Quality Wine Shop in New Haven. "The weekend of the Harvard/Yale game is one of our top three selling periods, We can always depend on The Game, Christmas, New Years, death and taxes...

Author: By Julia H. Day and Lea A. Saslav, S | Title: 10,000 Men of Harvard Want Alcohol Today | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

Manager of the Yankee Spirit Shop in New Haven Edward L. Clark says, "It's going to be a big beer weekend. Schnapps and brandies are pretty popular drinks, too. It's the proof that keeps 'em (the spectators) warm, supposedly...

Author: By Julia H. Day and Lea A. Saslav, S | Title: 10,000 Men of Harvard Want Alcohol Today | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

Inside, Dead fans once again set up shop to sell their wares and talk to fellow Deadheads. Many of them were trading tapes, bootlegs of past concerts. Unlike other bands, the Dead don't appear to mind people taping their concerts. In fact, at most concerts a special section of the arena is set up just for tapers...

Author: By Adam Schwartz, | Title: Night of Living | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

There is incongruity between the down-east Freeport of the mind's eye and what in the past several years has become what one critic calls "Maine Outletville." There are more shops than a nimble man or woman can shop in a day, more than the Merchants' Association president could count with certainty (about 70 is the best estimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: the Offspring of L.L. Bean | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...corner and the 52-unit motel going up across the street from that, the uncountable thousands are walking down Main Street in the rain. A young woman comes out of Bean's, pleasure in her face and a felt make-believe moose rack on her head. Inside an outlet shop, a slender matron explains to her friend, "So he bought me these shoes in Gucci's, and I said to him, 'Do me a favor. Don't buy me anything.' " Down in back of Main Street in the parking lots, there are men who deign not to participate with wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: the Offspring of L.L. Bean | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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