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Word: somethingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball's most dominant pitcher showed baseball's winningest team something it hadn't seen. Only Dave Parker could solve Hershiser, getting three singles, but twice Mark McGwire followed by grounding into double plays.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hershiser Blanks Oakland, 6-0 | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

The truly ambitious may create a ficticious but official-sounding class organization for the sole purpose of heading it for four years and meeting President Bok and other top administrators in the process. Barring this, you can always join such perennial and useless favorities as the Crimson Key and House...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Marshals of the Resume Parade | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

Wait, there's more. He has provided the a cappella accompaniment for three animated Just So stories shown on Showtime and narrated by Jack Nicholson, recorded the theme for The Cosby Show and vocalized for the eye-catching, ear- gracing commercials for Levi's 501 jeans. His four-octave voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Beat Box with Four Octaves | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

By then, Sheehan argues, "Vann had lost his compass." The trappings of power and his two young Vietnamese mistresses (each of whom was kept ignorant of the other for years) "satisfied him so completely that he could no longer look at ((the war)) as something separate from himself." Sheehan's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Flawed Hero in a Flawed War | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

"Unless something is done," Sister Pearl tells residents, "more problems are coming. More colonias, more people without water." Her job requires a healthy measure of outrage, something not difficult to acquire in neighborhoods rank with the odor of cesspools and defective septic tanks: in addition to 28,000 people without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting For Water in the Colonias | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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