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Word: thins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gets just a bit frustrating," Tri-Captain Steve Farrell said yesterday after the match. "We're just too thin, and it won't get any easier from here...

Author: By C.j. Georges, | Title: Brown Drubs Grapplers, 30-11 | 2/21/1987 | See Source »

...damaged Harvard architecture student who drinks heavily for lack of soul mate seeks beautiful, thin, well-textured woman with emotional problems and desire for affectionate sex that leads absolutely nowhere...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: Students Offer The 'Desperately Seeking' A Solution | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...With this weekend's cold weather, you might be able to cross the Charles today, but there is always a chance that the ice in thin on top and you'd fall though," said Alan McSweeney, a manger...

Author: By Michelle D. Tanenbaum, | Title: City's Snow Budget Exhausted | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

Black Widow has style to spare. Its images are opulent, chic, seductive: ! recumbent nudes framed by a fireplace, or a couple of perfect bodies meeting in a night-lighted swimming pool. At times the film seems to believe that no thriller can be too rich or too thin. But there is dark substance lurking here, like the avidity and contempt hidden in the all-American smile of its honeyed, moneyed murderer. That would be Catharine (Theresa Russell), who marries and fatally poisons some of the richest men in the world. Maybe she loves them, almost as much as she loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Ghost of Alfred Hitchcock | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Someth May distinctly remembers his mathematics tutor at a private school in Cambodia (now Kampuchea). He was a thin man with short gray hair who drove around town on a "rusty old sky-blue Mobylette." It made a terrible noise that his laughing students likened to a "tubercular cough." He always dressed simply, allowed no jokes and demanded punctuality, but he was a popular teacher who never punished his charges. At the end of each lesson, the mild man in sandals generally delivered a brief lament for the corruption of their society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghost Stories Came True: CAMBODIAN WITNESS | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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