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Word: ticker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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PARADES IN NEW YORK City are always an extravagant affair--from ticker tape parades for astronauts to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featuring every cartoon character from Betty Boop to a Mutant Ninja Turtle...

Author: By Godffrey S. Williams, | Title: Blarney From the Hibernians | 3/17/1992 | See Source »

...There never was a good war or a bad peace," Benjamin Franklin wrote to Josiah Quincy in 1773, expressing a simple truth that helps explain why Americans cheer so loudly as the victorious soldiers march through the center of town, leaving behind a trail of limp ticker tape, burst balloons -- and grumbling pundits. Some people will carp at the giddy excess and point out that the U.S. is cheering while the gulf still burns. They may be overlooking something that has changed in the way Americans think about themselves and what their country has achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Postwar Mood: Making Sense of The Storm | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...take the job if offered it. He is very low key as a campaign orator, however, and three years ago he underwent a heart bypass ) operation. His doctor says he's fine. But Democrats could, not unfairly, ask whether the men on a Bush-Cheney team had a good ticker between the two of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Who Fit the Bill | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

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