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Word: skis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finery go together like hand in well-stitched glove. Watch polo matches in Palm Beach, trim in a crested blazer and trousers of crisp linen. Sip cognac by the fireplace of a Sun Valley, chalet, snug under a brightly colored Navajo blanket and clad in a Nordic apres-ski sweater and wool twill slacks. Go on safari in Kenya wearing a bush jacket and khaki shorts that would do justice to Robert Redford in Out of Africa. Sip tea at London's Connaught Hotel, draped to perfection in a chalk-stripe suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...performers, Quack Nicklaus, blew a stunt. Keened the trainer: "There's only so much you can teach a duck.") At Sea World the dolphins do backflips in sync; a walrus sprays his audience on cue; seals eat fish dangled by children; there are even a few humans doing water-ski daredeviltry to pre-Beatles rock in the Beach Blanket Ski Party show. As at Disney World, Sea World works hard to elicit one of two reactions from its visitors: awe ("Isn't that amazing!") and awwww ("Isn't that cute!"). Because Sea World's stars are live animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: If Heaven Ain't a Lot Like Disney Theme Parks | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...came here in September expecting it to be snowing. I told my mother, "Oh my God, mom, I need my ski jacket immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Guamanian Out of Water | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...monthly expedition to Fred Segal, a Los Angeles clothing shop, where she spends up to $300 on surfer shorts, Japanese print shirts and other exotic duds for her five-year-old son Brandon. Joel Stillman, 38, and his wife Renee, 38, of suburban Detroit spent $800 on smart-looking ski outfits and equipment for their son Jonathon, 11, and daughter Sara, 8. Karen Topalian, 40, bought her daughter Kendra, almost 2, a $120 yellow pima cotton frock. Says Topalian, who lives in Cohasset, Mass.: "I love my children to look nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Fashion for Little Ones | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...strangler, still at large, was described by the woman as a stocky man about 25-40 years in age, 5'7" in height, wearing brown pants, a red jacket, and a dark colored ski hat. Security has been tightened throughout the college, Roth said...

Author: By Alan Z. Segal, | Title: Lehigh Student Raped, Strangled in Dorm | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

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