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Word: slided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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During AIDS Awareness Week early this month, many schools took the opportunity to present slide shows, speakers, and panel discussions, and to distribute condoms, booklets and safer sex kits to student...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Colleges Aim to Combat AIDS Apathy | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

Over time, the paintings have had to deal with a variety of obstacles--in addition to theft--that most artists never encounter. Tom shows a slide of one painting, its only remnant clinging to the bottom bolt--a passing truck had crushed...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Friendly Artist Makes Cambridge His Galllery | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

When he was still a lonely high school kid in Martins Ferry, Ohio, the factory worker's son who would later become -- in Critic Peter Stitt's phrase -- "one of the very great heroes of American poetry" used to drop by Margret Ashbrook's house and slide his poems across the table for Margret and her mom to see. "He showed us a poem that had the word slob in it, and we told him that was an unpoetic word," recalls Margret. "But he said that's how it is, and that's how he feels, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Town and the Bard Who Left It | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Columbia has never been the same team again. Last Saturday's record-breaking loss to Princeton was the lowest point of Columbia's nine-year losing slide. I've come a long way since the 1979 game at Brown, but I'll admit that I still root for the first football team I ever liked...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Longing for the Cowbell Ring | 10/15/1987 | See Source »

...televangelist was fulfilling a promise he had made during a fund-raising drive that netted $20 million for the debt-ridden PTL. Looking a little pale at the top of the 163-ft.-long water slide, Falwell recited the Lord's Prayer before his hellish four-second descent into the pool below, where he landed shoes up. Nearby, a group of PTL partners brandished a sign that read FALWELL, DON'T BACKSLIDE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fund Raising: Falwell Hits The Skids | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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