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Word: suckers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kindled that night, but it took 18 months to work it into a flame. Now the Pogues burn reckless and bright, working weird wonders on old Irish airs, giving errant folk melodies a strong bracing of rock. The new Pogues album has the kind of title that makes a sucker out of anyone who doesn't know the band; Peace and Love is full of spunk and sass, unreconstructed punk attitude hiding a hard social conscience. Chits will no longer be tossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Eight Lads Putting on Airs | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...sucker for mixed metaphors...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Row, Row, Row Your Boat | 8/1/1989 | See Source »

...stands for sucker," jeered Alan Dixon of Illinois. Decrying Japan's conquest of "industry after industry," West Virginia's Robert Byrd said, "We have to send a message to our own wimpy diplomats that we're not going to take it lying down anymore." Despite such rhetoric in last week's floor debate, the Senate approved the joint U.S.-Japan FSX jet-fighter project, provided the President agrees to an accompanying resolution that would clip its wings slightly. The Byrd amendment requires that U.S.-based General Dynamics get 40% of the estimated $6 billion project, the portion that includes confidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: Finding It Hard To Share | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...Then they work their way westward, taking advantage of the changing time zones to make the maximum number of calls. Consumers who call back with questions are invariably told that the salesman is in a meeting. Once stung, many victims are deluged with other offers. Reason: boiler rooms sell sucker lists to one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reach Out And Rob Someone | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

NOTHING in the world is more humiliating than being passed on the slopes by a five-year-old tot on skis with a sticker on the back of his jacket reading "Eat my exhaust, sucker!" Unless of course, you count the myriad pre-schoolers who sidle up to you in the ski lodge, look at your ski pass and yell to their moms, "He's only a novice! He's only a novice...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Vermont is for Masochists | 2/16/1989 | See Source »

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