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

...arrives 10 minutes late, wearing jeans and a brown leather jacket and ragged tennis shoes; his exterior fits the stereotype of a stree-wise youth. But his piercing brown eyes reveal a side left out of the newspaper articles and Phillips Brooks House reports...

Author: By Eugenia Balodimas, | Title: Cruzing the Streets of Boston | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...STREE'S Silkwood fits right into the dry, voidless landscape of her cheaply furnished house. Her red hair, compulsive cigarette smoking and good-natured rambunctiousness are charming, and we gradually accept her character for what she is, not what she could be if she ignored the corruption and raised her three children from a common-law marriage who live with their father. Streep plays well off the other characters, featuring her rugged live-in boyfriend Drew (Kurt Russell) and her bizarre, sexually frustrated roommate Dolly (Cher). Both Russell and Cher turn in excellent performances, overcoming past stereotypes--Russell...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Uncomplicated Power | 12/15/1983 | See Source »

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