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Word: staines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would think, What do you think I'm doing?" or Vegas: "Listen, when I was a kid, the neighborhood I grew up in? It was so dirty I'd sit out in the sun for two hours and get a nice stain." But it is terse, credible and consistent with the speakers, odious or otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dickens from Detroit | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...formative experience was in the thirties and World War II, particularly the years when the Nazi stain spread over Europe, and when the Nazis occupied France. This has kept me with a lifelong, perverse preoccupation with world wars; and again, to make my biases very clear. I do not like them. So while I am not a pacifist, Christian or otherwise--the experience of the Thirties, so perfectly distilled in Ionesco's Rhinoceros, rules this out--I have a very strong belief that no war is very often better than war (indeed, a world war was avoidable as late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Falsehoods | 3/10/1984 | See Source »

...priest unloosed their awful revenge on the pristine jungle things started to change. One character threw out a string of Bond Jokes; his love answered, "Roger." The Man of the Year, being human, laughed. The audience kept drinking. The Belles did their schtick, then stripped down to yellow stain bikinis and did it again...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Belleboys in Love | 2/23/1984 | See Source »

...through yonder defense breaks? It is Steve Ernst, and Harvard is the sun. Yet, see, the Crimson doth itself appear, as doth the blushing discontented sun from out the fiery portal of the Ivy League, when it perceives the envious Crusaders are bent to dim its glory and to stain the record of its bright passage through the 1983 schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Bard Time | 11/5/1983 | See Source »

...conscience, enroll in Professor Dominguez's courses. We understand and support the many students who share these views. Based on our understanding of the facts, we believe that Jorge I Dominguez is not fit to continue as a professor at Harvard and that his continued presence is a moral stain on Harvard's reputation. What more must someone do before Harvard revokes his or her tenure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About Dominguez | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

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