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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Junior Ed Krayer netted a goal to win the national championship in overtime, but during the post-game interviews few reporters asked about the play. The goal? Forget it. Tell us why you dropped out of school a year-and-a-half...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Talking About the Wrong Stuff | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

...Tell me, Chuckie, what do your parents do for a living? Your dad's a cop, you say? How much do Boston policemen make these days...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Talking About the Wrong Stuff | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

...blocks from the gleaming Capitol dome, the Oregon Republican watched as a man 20 yards ahead of him blasted away with a gun at another man. Hatfield zoomed through a red light to flee the scene. He did not call the police. "I assure you if in Washington you tell the police you saw somebody shooting somebody, they'd say, 'So what?' " Hatfield explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Place for A Test Case | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

Many former UNLV players ultimately work as slot-machine hosts, casino bosses and maitre d's on the Vegas strip. Tarkanian says sometimes casino operators tell him which players they want to hire even before graduation. Says the coach: "We tell the kids if they keep their noses clean, this town will take care of them. They all stay here. Nobody ever leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Playing To Win in Vegas | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...dusty records from Adams' trial. What Morris found in the boxes was more intriguing than Dr. Death: evidence of a prosecution willing to bend, if not break, the guarantees of a fair trial in its efforts to obtain a conviction. Morris abandoned his original project in order to tell Adams' story in The Thin Blue Line, which won two major film awards and helped Adams finally win his freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recrossing The Thin Blue Line | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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