Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least a few infants are sleeping in 24-karat-gold-plated cribs, which Lewis of London, a New York City-based chain, sells for $1,995. Clown, a children's store in Chicago, offers a $42 sterling-silver toothbrush. And thousands of tots are being wheeled around in sleek Aprica strollers from Japan, which cost...
...sleek three-stage Delta roared off its pad at 6:18 p.m. Saturday after a trouble-free countdown. Its main liquid-fuel engine and solid-fuel boosters all fired as planned. Delta soared into the clear Florida sky. Then, 71 seconds into its flight, monitoring technicians experienced a chilling case of deja vu. Their instruments showed that the main engine had shut down before it was programmed to do so, causing Delta to lose its flight stability. Veering out of control, the rocket began to break up. At 91 seconds, range safety officials destroyed it by remote control...
...venerable walls of Newell Boathouse are covered with oars, newspaper headlines, banners, and photographs--all tangible reminders of the 126 years that young men have pulled sleek shells through the water at Harvard, and of the winning tradition that those young men have created...
...WrestleMania's archvillain Nikolai Volkoff, whose technique consists of grappling his opponent to the mat and sitting on him. With Gromyko kicked upstairs to the largely ceremonial post of President and Gorbachev's protege Eduard Shevardnadze in charge of the Foreign Ministry, Soviet diplomacy now resembles Ivan Drago, the sleek and powerful Soviet boxer portrayed in the movie Rocky...
...world's richest collection of fossil bones of tritheledonts, the group of reptiles most closely related to mammals; a large number of sphenodonts, small, lizard-like reptiles whose only living relative is the tuatara of New Zealand; yard-long crocodiles with spindly legs, a whiplike tail and a sleek body that Olsen calls "the cheetahs of their time"; a trail of penny-size footprints left by a dinosaur no bigger than a sparrow...