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Word: stinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost $120. Jesus, some guys'll sit around at Harvard all night. They'll go up to North Cambridge, and they'll only pull in about $50. Like, I wouldn't go up to anyone tonight and tell him how much I've made, 'cause it would cause a stink. He'd ask me, 'Hey, who the hell's feeding...

Author: By Jay Woodruff, | Title: Taxi Driver: Tales of a Nocturnal Veteran | 10/8/1980 | See Source »

There is a horrible screeching and the hot stink of brake pads and burning tires. Heart pounding, the driver guns his motor, racing away from the barricade. But now another car pulls out of a dark side road to cut him off. Though half blinded by its headlights, he jams on the brakes again, and just as his car is shuddering to a stop, he slams it into reverse and guns the engine. Seconds later he takes his foot off the gas and turns the steering wheel hard. Tires screaming, the car spins around once more, but is again facing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Virginia: Drive for Life | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...some capacity in 1984. After all, even if many conventions offer only pseudo news, there is something about them that sets a reporter's blood stirring. Said Wilkie: "I'm jaded about going to the White House and seeing the President. I think those press conferences stink. But I really get up for these things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Tale of Two Conventions | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...signs. Then, just as the television and press get their cameras going, and with McGovern standing there, helpless, every dirty hippie there is gonna whip it out and take a leak, right there in front of everybody. They'll never be able to get the stink out of the carpet so he'll have to move, and no way they'll be able to keep quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Watergate's Sphinx Speaks | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

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