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Word: wackos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing is that he never stopped being a Sikh, and he remains full of admiration for the social reformers who founded the religion: "These guys were, like, wacko. They just appeared out of nowhere and were talking about justice and equality. Treat women equally, serve the poor, defend your rights. It fits the social and revolutionary agenda of the American republic to a tee." He shrugs. "Except that we wear beards and turbans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Key West, Florida Pritam Singh's Strange Career | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...enough I'll only put up with extremely conservative players and a wacko coach if they are extremely conservative winning players and a wacko winning coach...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Redskins, I Can Hail Thee No Longer | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

Except by Juzo Itami, a filmmaker to whom obsession is character, the source of everything that is interesting and wacko in human behavior. In last year's Tampopo he genially satirized the spiritual contortions people will undergo when gripped by a fervor for haute cuisine. In A Taxing Woman his subjects are relentless greed and implacable righteousness, and his mood is, appropriately, much darker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Driven by Uncontrollable Passions A TAXING WOMAN | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

Other former freshmen recall roommate problems of a very different kind. My roommate "tried to burn down the dorm," a former Matthews resident recall. "He was wacko...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Suites For Strangers | 12/17/1987 | See Source »

...scandal. I don't know what they're on, down in Washington. It's wacko time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: In The Shadows of the Twin Towers | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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