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Word: snakebit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normal and also snakebit, however, is a bit much. Injuries hit the U.S. men hard, and all but wiped out the women's team. Veteran Doug Lewis, who cracked a collarbone when a Soviet coach who was taking pictures blundered into his path during a ski test a few weeks ago, creaked to 32nd place in the downhill. A.J. Kitt and Jeff Olson, a couple of youngsters still getting used to the World Cup circuit, did respectably to finish 26th and 28th. No U.S. male skier survived the combined. Among the women, early-season injuries knocked out Star Tamara McKinney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downhill Skiing: Three, Two, One . . . Airborne! | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...would be a dull book if the two remained proprietors of the Hat Creek Cattle Co. & Livery Emporium ("GOATS AND DONKEY'S NEITHER BOUGHT NOR SOLD/WE DON'T RENT PIGS"). It isn't that life in town can't be dangerous. One can always fall off a porch, get snakebit picking up a jug or risk Tex-Mex cooking. The recipe for varmint stew: "Whatever the dogs catch. Or the dogs themselves, if they don't manage to catch nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It's a Long, Long Tale Awinding Lonesome Dove | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...launching of the 1984 presidential campaign. So stark were the contrasts between the two campaigns that they almost seemed contrived, a TV producer's artifice. They were not. Rarely has one candidate set out on the trail seeming so buoyant and secure, his challenger appearing so flat and snakebit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smelling the Big Kill | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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