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Word: snuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Biland also wrestled up to snuff, slipping by WPI, 3-2, and UNH, 4-2. He gathered his strength to splatter his NYU opponent...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Injury-Plagued Grapplers Initialize WPI, NYU, UNH | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Bush was the first to arrive for the two days of shipboard summit talks. But his last-minute summit preparations were interrupted by an attempted coup in the Philippines, which he sought to snuff out by committing U.S. air support to forces loyal to President Corazon Aquino...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superpower Summit To Begin in Malta | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

USAir didn't think the personal hygiene of Randi Freeman and her husband Amir Omrani was up to snuff after they boarded a flight from Seattle to Pittsburgh last month. Airline personnel asked the couple to disembark, and a gate supervisor informed them that both the crew and assorted passengers had complained about their offensive body odor. Freeman and Omrani, an Iranian national, were given toiletries and sent to the washroom as the plane left without them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Offensive Behavior | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...freedom of speech only for the broad-minded or the better educated? Can one speak only after studying whatever one has reason, from one's beliefs, to denounce? Then most of us would be doing a great deal less speaking than we do. If one has never seen any snuff movies, is that a bar to criticizing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Praise of Censure | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

This is where the riders come in. These and other snags in the shuttle system deserve reconsideration and perhaps change. The shuttle exists to serve the Harvard community, so if you think the shuttle isn't up to snuff, tell the people in charge--specifically: Ed Casey, Facilities Maintenance, 175 N Harvard Street, Cambridge...

Author: By Lawrence B. Finer, | Title: Driving For Service | 4/26/1989 | See Source »

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