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Word: tans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guitar, of course; drives a tan Plymouth with Texas plates; watches TV in cheap motels where he stops briefly. He is a traveling man. Soft-spoken and polite. He dines on Whoppers and writes love notes to a teen-age movie star at Yale-while going madder by the minute, buying guns and hitting the dream cities of Denver, Nashville, Dallas and L.A., until he arrives by Greyhound at the city of the country's heart, which he is driven to penetrate. So after a while even he becomes real. At week's end one understands not everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sense of Where We Are | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...nearby office building. Dodson noticed the young man wearing a tan raincoat. "He looked fidgety, agitated, a little strange," Dodson recalled later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Shots at a Nation's Heart | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

While some of you were baking under southern skies yesterday or heading back to Cambridge after a week of beer, sun-tan lotion and oblivion, the Harvard women's lacrosse team was basking in the glory of a 7-6 win over the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: By George P. Bayliss, | Title: Laxwomen Trounce Penn, 7-6 | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...country-Japan, China or the U.S. alone-can check Soviet expansionism," says Tan Wenrui, deputy editor in chief of the Chinese party newspaper, the People's Daily. The Chinese want to see the emergence of a multilateral defense arrangement. Singapore's Rajaratnam agrees: "Since the U.S. cannot meet the threat on its own, what is needed in Asia is a collective defense system including the U.S., the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines), Australia, New Zealand and Canada, with South Korea and China as components. The Japanese, too, must contribute their share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: The Soviets Stir Up the Pacific | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...first day back that the temperature reaches sixty, you tear off that down jacket and walk through the Yard in the yellow South-of-the Border t-shirt and the ebony south-of-the Carolinas tan that proclaims to the world, "I know where the good times roll"--that makes the pain of waking up for Fine Arts 175 worthwhile...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Join the Pilgrimage! Florida Over Spring Break | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

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