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Word: teen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Garrison is a Black who overcame long odds to get where she is today. She grew up on the wrong side of Houston, learning her tennis at dangerous Riverside Park, the wrong place for a young teen to learn anything...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Drowning Out the Old Racist Rancor | 9/22/1988 | See Source »

...Final Thought: Columbia senior Chris Lorentz, who saw some action at quarterback, was once an Ohio Teen of the Month, according to the Columbia press guide...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Football Notebook | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

Sassy magazine may not have Playboy-style naughty photos, but the bold, breezy teen monthly prints plenty of material suggestive enough to draw the wrath of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. Under the direction of Editor Jane Pratt, 25, Sassy has published such articles as "The Truth About Boys' ; Bodies" and "How to Kiss." That is too much for the Moral Majority, which in the mid-1980s helped persuade a few retailers, including 7-Eleven stores, to stop selling Playboy and other skin mags. In its Liberty Report newspaper, the Moral Majority urges readers to write to Sassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOYCOTTS: Trying to Silence Sassy | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...said the bus was carrying eight nuns, seven teen-age schoolgirls, six teachers and other pilgrims who had been picked up on the way to Maseru, the capital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 60 Held in S. Africa Hijacking | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

...however, help turn her into a rebellious and promiscuous teen. She was straightened out by her father, a strict disciplinarian who forced her to read books and memorize 20 new vocabulary words a week. The two are still "close in spirit," Oprah says, though they talk only once every couple of months. "We weren't a family with lots of hugs and touching," Oprah recalls. "Nobody ever said, 'I love you.' " Her father, still a barber and city councilman in Nashville, has turned down Oprah's offers to "retire him" (though she does support her mother financially). "The only thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oprah Winfrey: Lady with a Calling | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

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