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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chair, warily eyeing the kitchen door. "It isn't paradise, but they don't go hungry. When I was a kid, I didn't eat the best either. I was raised on french fries and macaroni because that's what my mother could afford. I loved that stuff. I love it today. And I'm a healthy little woman. And macaroni is good. I say that because (she raises her voice deliberately to be heard in the next room) some of my kids with silver spoons in their mouth think that macaroni three or four times a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...rather than snorted, and a single hit provides a short but intense and practically instantaneous rush. The drug of the moment, it has been reported in at least 13 states, and police in New York and California have been busy busting the "base houses," or "rock houses," where the stuff is sold and smoked. Said William Hopkins of New York's substance abuse services division: "Drug addicts are always looking for the ultimate high, and they all agree that crack is the ultimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Narcotics: A Deadly New Hit | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...interested in anything that relates to its product. Says Vellinger: "If space chickens turn out to be better than earth chickens, Kentucky Fried Chicken might be interested in raising chickens in a weightless environment." In other words, the colonel wants to see if space chickens have the right stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Experiments: The Colonel Goes into Space | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...star-studded tribute taped for broadcast on CBS next week. Hope was moved to tears by troupers from every branch of the armed services singing Thanks for the Memories. Sills bubbled, "The best part of the whole thing was that the President of the United States called me 'Hot Stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 23, 1985 | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...good news," says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television, "is that children's video is the most likely place to find alternatives to toy-commercial video, which is what network children's TV has turned into. The bad news is that all this stuff on network TV is also in home-video stores, and the promotion budgets are enormous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Kidvid Cassettes for Christmas | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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