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Word: slunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon, a real estate agent (Nicky Henson) appears, not to show the house but to have a weekend shack-up with his Popsy (Rowena Roberts). He knows that the couple who own the house have slunk off to Spain for a tax dodge. What he does not know is that they are about to slink back. In no time, sheiks and burglars are added to the mix, along with the mandatory defrocking of women and the depantsing of men and doors popping open and slamming shut as if by the ghost of Feydeau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pride of the London Season | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...cousins: a rock concert is far more likely to end in a street fight or a brawl than in a march on some contemporary Bastille. When the revolution of the '60s derailed, its music as well as its ideology having proved vulnerable to compromise and commercialization, rock and roll slunk away from the topic of war. America's popular music forgot about Vietnam long before the last helicopters left, and by the mid-'70s war appeared on disc only as tongue-in-cheek posing--the Ramones sang "Blitzkrieg Bop" in 1976--or historical ballad--Al Stewart's "Roads to Moscow...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Tunes of Glory | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Harvard's best opportunity to score in the opening frame came when Tigers Todd Hewitt and Grant Hansen slunk to the penalty box together at 16:50 to serve two minutes each for slashing and hooking, respectively...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Icemen Swamp Princeton, 5-1 | 2/14/1980 | See Source »

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