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Word: spoonful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...would say a greasy spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvard's Waffle Case | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...This is a case on how to run a greasy spoon?" Maister asks, writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvard's Waffle Case | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...Southerner is called on and agrees that they are "greasy spoon, cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvard's Waffle Case | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...widespread custom, called cqo gio (Vietnamese for "scratch the wind"), is used for everything from colds to convulsions. A medicated oil or ointment is rubbed into the skin, which is then firmly stroked with a coin, comb or spoon until contusions appear. The practice seems harmless, says Pediatrician Gentry Yeatman of the Tacoma, Wash., Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Folk Remedy | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...close, the process of generational amnesia and painful relearning seems wasteful; it leaves the countryside strewn with all kinds of debris - dead fathers surrounded by the or phan parricides who exuberantly did them in but do not even know yet how to use a spoon. However, as Albert Einstein once observed, "God is subtle, but he is not malicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Endless Rediscovery of the Wheel | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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