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Word: twos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following the initial instruction, the teachers seperate the fifth-graders into smaller groups of twos and threes and work with them further on getting the combinations, she says...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Cambridge Kids Step Out With Style | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...seemed to reach out for Holmes, though Tyson tried. "At his best, he was the greatest of our time," said the undefeated young barbarian, 21, who meant it kindly. "I always used to want Holmes to win, except when he fought Ali." So even afterward, Tyson was landing one- twos. In the prefight keynote, one last time, the vague old champ Muhammad Ali was paraded in front of the unfortunate man whom history had designated to follow him. Later, as Holmes spun drunkenly about the ring, Ali's former corner physician Ferdie Pacheco murmured, "Those are the knockdowns that make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To The Finish Someone eventually gets us | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...separately; we went out for coffee in twos and threes. Finally the four of us ended up around the same table. Again and again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee Is A State Of Mind | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

...haven't gotten to the really boring part yet," Jane adds. After several weeks of analyzing, she was promoted to sharpening pencils--3500 Number Twos, to be exact. (Did you ever wonder who sharpened all those pencils for your standardized tests? Now you know.) Jane says the pencils were the most boring part of the summer, at least until she realized "you can sharpen pencils and read Lady Chatterley's Lover at the same time...After that I listened to the Grateful Dead because my boss went on vacation...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: How I Didn't Spend My Summer Vacation | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

...child conventions on which the typical sci-fi robot is modeled. But Malkovich informs and energizes his performance with the deadpan bravery, the relentless will, the invincible ignorance and the infinite need to give and receive love that all parents observe as their offspring pass through the infamously terrible twos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Making Mr. Right | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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