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Word: switches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interim conclusion is that while the world around him has changed, Ronald Reagan remains the same. Over Christmas he wore a necktie that played Jingle Bells when he pressed a tiny switch. He's brought in one of his old word wizards, Ken Khachigian, to help sculpt his State of the Union address, which Reagan is counting on to be boffo theater and rekindle the lost love. When his crew of surgeons watched him sip hot water before a radio address, he reassured them, "Both a minister and Frank Sinatra said they used hot water to help their voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Toting a New Magic Wand | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...player who has demonstrated the ability to function under the hoop is junior Co-Captain Sharon Hayes. "We have been taking Sharon inside," Delaney Smith said, "but she is really more effective on the perimeter." Hayes doesn't appear to be suffering from the switch--she has scored in double figures in the last eight games, netting a team-high 14 points against the Big Green. Hayes also contributed nine rebounds, as did Duncan (10 points...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Women Cagers Tumble to Third Ivy Loss | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

...instructs the computer to execute all of the commands in the file DB.BAT stored on disk. Upon looking at the Hacker's DB.BAT file, the IBM compatible then knows to do the following things. Load in Sidekick (a handy calculator/notepad utility), create a ramdisk, activate a print spooling utility, switch to the Dbase subdirectory of the hard disk and start the DBASE program running...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Making an IBM Compatible User Friendly is as Easy as BAT | 1/16/1987 | See Source »

...meet like this is very hard to swim," said Costin Scalise. "We had a great training trip that brought the team together, but most of the team is very tired from the yardage. Still, it is nice to see that we can switch to off-events and still...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Aquawomen Drub Dartmouth, 103-37 | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...seemed Vinny was staring me right in the eyes. We'd be faking a man-to-man coverage and I'd be saying to myself, 'I hope he believes it, I hope he believes it.' He'd chuckle just before the snap, and we'd all think, 'Good,' and switch to a zone." Conlan tried to restrain a laugh, not very hard. "For a week," he said, "all we heard was how great and fast their receivers were, and how short and slow our secondary was. Well, those little guys rocked them. That was the key to the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bowl of Bowls | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

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