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Word: trail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that's left of these summer adventures is a trail of spent fireworks rotting on the school sandlot. From the ceiling of my dorm room hangs a cardboard and wax paper Chinese lantern, tilted and burnt from swirling so quickly as the fireworks cascaded out. A burnt-out "Happiness Fountain" adorns my shelf...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Keeping Society Safe | 9/30/1987 | See Source »

...Crimson can accomplish that, it can avoid having to travel the comeback trail...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Field Hockey | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...last week than he may be able to bear. Serious students of public affairs probably noticed that he performed competently, but far from memorably, at the Bork hearings. But what most voters are more likely to remember was the endless TV sequences of Biden's words on the campaign trail juxtaposed with almost identical oratory coming from the mouth of Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey and British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. English teachers in New Hampshire high schools were soon using Biden as the bad example in lessons on the evils of plagiarism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden's Familiar Quotations | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...graduates still trail in top schools nationwide in attaining managerial or executive positions, largely because society stereotypes engineers as "nerds," according to The Tech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Cuts | 9/26/1987 | See Source »

...into their Chevrolet convertible and drove east to a $15,000 job teaching law at Yale. Although some of his partners were shocked, his intimates understood. "He told me he didn't want to spend his life practicing law and cash in at the end, leaving nothing but a trail of depositions, briefs and money," recalls Economist John McGee, a friend from those Chicago days. "He wanted to leave something enduring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Long and Winding Odyssey | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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