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Word: tilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yogi did earn a victory of sorts yesterday as the Smith softball team demonstrated that his famous profoundly, "It's never over "till it's over," is still the finest and most accurate commentary ever made on the game...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Smith Comeback Capsizes Batswomen, 7-6 | 4/12/1985 | See Source »

Some people get around that problem by using a coat or a parent as a dressing curtain. But many other shoppers say they are too shy to undress in a room full of strangers and so they just take chances and wait till they get home to see if it fits...

Author: By Shair Rudavsky, | Title: Bustle in the Basement | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...pots, pans and gongs, and lighting firecrackers; the sparrows were frightened from their roosts and not allowed to realight. Recalls Chinese Ornithologist Tao Yaokuang, who was forced to take part in the program: "The idea was to harass them so they would be on their wings the whole day till they literally dropped dead." Sparrows were not the only birds to perish in the melee. Cranes, ibis and eagles, among others, were driven to near extinction by reckless pesticide spraying, pollution and the destruction of forests. Even today the woods around Peking remain eerily silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Lift for Endangered Cranes | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...appropriation to fly to Washington en masse for a day of lobbying. In Ames, Iowa, 15,000 people, many wearing bright green FARM CRISIS ribbons, jammed a midweek protest rally at Iowa State University's Hilton Coliseum carrying signs reading FARMS, NOT ARMS and NO BILL, NO TILL. Back East, eight farm-state Senators led by Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin echoed their constituents with a demonstration of their own in Lafayette Park, across from the White House. Harkin had 250 white crosses planted to represent the approximate number of farms going out of business each day. "If this President thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Push Comes to Shove | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

People have argued that the Houses breed stereotypes (i.e. pocks, preps, wonks, minorities gay at which are so preponderous in the House that they are totally unrepresentative of the College population. However the real would is till of these stcrcotspes. My home the San Francisco Bay area is a prime example. As is well known we have a considerable gay community in San Francisco. They seem to be very happy there. Should the government force them to randomly scatter around the country, say to the South and the Mideast (commonly referred to as the Midwest) denying them their "mutual support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Real World | 2/16/1985 | See Source »

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