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Word: sinkings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold on a mo', mates. A shrewdly unsettling tack by a New Zealand banker, Michael Fay, aims to sink San Diego's big party. When Fay sent his unconventional fiberglass New Zealand into the elimination series in the last go-around, Conner tweaked the Kiwis, intimating they "wanted to cheat" their way to victory with design legerdemain. Within seven months, Fay had conceived a comeuppance from Down Under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Does K Stand for Killjoy? | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...swirls the glass fiercely for a second or two and inhales. "Not much wood in the nose," he observes, "but it's jammy, with plenty of fruit." He sips, noisily sloshes the wine along his tongue and, with practiced aplomb, spews a stream of Napa Valley Merlot into the sink of his wet bar. "It's a little too tannic," he concludes. "Competently made, but nothing exciting. Probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Man with a Paragon Palate | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...family who was in charge of putting the hair on the toothpaste. (They all denied it, of course.) Yet the phenomenon continued throughout freshman year. At night I would check the toothpaste carefully, and put the cover on tightly. Every morning I would rush to the sink and unscrew the toothpaste, and there it was--a series of brown hairs stuck smack dab in the middle of the tube opening...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Hair Today, Still There Tomorrow | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

...each other, no one in Claremont Street would have given her a garment which was worse than something someone else had given her." Her presence seems ubiquitous: "There was hardly a dinner party in Claremont Street where Weekly was not in the kitchen crashing cutlery and dishes in the sink"; yet the people she works for know nothing at all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flowerings the Newspaper of Claremont Street | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...girl being a naughty boy," she tells him, perhaps before he has even flirted with a naughty thought. But Dan is a man, and pathetically ordinary. From curiosity or concupiscence, from boredom or weakness, he goes to her apartment. Next thing, they are making mad sex by the kitchen sink. Dirty dishes clatter under her buttocks. Tap water lubricates their lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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