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Word: squealed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine and saying, "Come on! Big one, big one! Here it comes!" Her friend Janet Salo, by contrast, tends to snap the lever down; it is all in the elbow and in her whispered incantation: "Seven-seven-seven-se ven." Both of them admit that they will squeal for any jackpot from 50 cents up. At one point, when they have pooled their money with a third friend to play the dollar machines, all three squeal together and draw a crowd five deep. "How much did they win?" people ask. "$100," comes the reply. "Oh, shoot," says a hardened gambler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Hibbing on a Hot Streak | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

With Joshua Shapiro our given ethnic is Jewish, persecution-complex and all. "Look how they eat?" we gasp as Josh egregiously woofs down a fancy plate at a posh WASP-establishment restaurant. "They do that?" we squeal as Joshua exhibits the dishonesty of Yer-Basic-Semite on the time-honored subject of money. Shock-shlock, no ands ifs or buts...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Not So Good Schlock | 10/12/1985 | See Source »

...woman passes by in a pair of phosphorescent Reebox. The girl lets out a squeal and grabs her girlfriend...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: What's a Punk? | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

Only Ronald Reagan could turn a speech on tax reform into a roaring, foot- stomping pep rally. But last week at steamy Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, N.C., the President inspired cheerleaders in red miniskirts to strut and squeal as 14,000 North Carolina State students chanted, "U.S.A.! U.S.A. !" Reagan happily egged them on. "Do you want America's tax plan--a fair share for everyone?" he asked rhetorically. The bellowed affirmation brought an election-night grin. Said Reagan: "Something tells me I came to the right place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Hardest Sell | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...OPERATION DREW TO A CLOSE, A STRANGE, PERCUSSIVE ACCOMPANIMENT AROSE FROM THE PATIENT'S CHEST: ch, ch, ch. FOR DR. WILLIAM DEVRIES, THE ONLY SURGEON IN THE WORLD AUTHORIZED TO IMPLANT THE ARTIFICIAL HEART, THESE WERE THE SOUNDS OF SUCCESS, AS REASSURING TO HIM AS A NEWBORN'S FIRST SQUEAL IS TO THE OBSTETRICIAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medicine: Mar. 4, 1985 | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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