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Word: stinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AUDIENCE was not allowed outside during intermission, probably to prevent any last minute assault by suicide stink-bomb squads. Most of the audience poured out into the Wang Center's stuffy lobby, sipping over-priced Coca Colas and complaining about the protesters...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Art for Art's Sake | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

From the moment I punch in or step into a warehouse, I feel as if I have entered the Tower of Babel: nothing makes sense. For instance, when my foreman tells me to "cut the grass down thar between that patch of goober weeds and them stink weeds," I am at a complete loss...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Those Back-to-School Blues | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

Twenty minutes later, surveying the massacred patch of flowers, he hits me with the inevitable line: "You go to HARVARD and you don't know the difference between goober weeds and stink weeds?!!! Gawwwwdamn...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Those Back-to-School Blues | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

Through half-shut lids I watched concerned friends, milling crowds, and kind of laughed to see them eyeing me. Through wide-open ears I heard the half-hearted "Sox stink" jokes, barriers against the pain of opening day losses...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Soaking Up Some Timeless Fen-Rays | 4/15/1986 | See Source »

...rather than raising a stink, the State Department released "Medved" when he asked to return to the Soviet Union. This is where our hero, Lieutenant James Geltz of the U.S. Navy, comes in. Geltz took pictures of the second Medved, without permission, for what he later called "historical documentation purposes...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Lieutenant Courageous | 4/1/1986 | See Source »

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