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Word: slurped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every lunch and dinner for the past three years, my roommate turns on all his Texas charm and asks whether he can get me some ice cream. "Whoops!" he pretends to remember. "You can't digest it! HAHAHAHAHA! [slurp...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Liberty, Equality, Ice Cream | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...converted, for purposes of contemptuous calculation, into some lower life-form? Do moviegoers suddenly seem to them to be, say, a vast colony of ants mindlessly munching through forests of Roman numerals, unconcerned about the taste, good or bad, of anything placed in our path? (Yum -- Indiana Jones III; slurp -- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; burp -- Ghostbusters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time for The Ants to Revolt? | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...architecture, building their own tea garden and baseball diamond on top of a treatment plant. But this will almost certainly be the largest such structure in the world, says Joseph Coppola of New York City's Richard Dattner Architects, the project's design firm. One day soon every slurp of a West Side drain will bring residents a bit closer to what officials have already named Riverbank State Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City Coney Island On the Hudson | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...beef house in the best Latin tradition. The house specialty: churrasco, a center cut of tenderloin marinated in chimichurri -- fresh chopped parsley, olive oil, garlic and spices. On a Saturday night at Versailles, the undisputed palace of Cuban cooking in the heart of Little Havana, Anglo couples slurp mamey milk shakes made from a sweet tropical fruit, while Cuban workmen just off the swing shift savor the fresh roast pork, sweet fried plantains and black beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Earth And Fire | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...Macon's blue-collar Southside, the Sandwich King is a friendly, family- owned eatery where folks slurp coffee and talk about bass fishing, layoffs at the local textile mills and, once in a while, politics. Most of the whites at the cafe describe themselves as evangelical Christians who support a strong military and a balanced budget. A real Reaganite bunch? Think again. "I don't always like the Democrats who run for President," says Bill Morland, 36, a burly telephone lineman, "but it was pretty clear to me from the get-go that Ronald Reagan was out to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Away, Dixieland | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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