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Word: waists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ahead, the Snake River spooled around a long, grassy bend and then out of sight. From where Bing Lempke stood, waist-deep in the jade current, he had an uninterrupted view of several hundred yards of open water. His eyes had settled there, sweeping across the riffles and eddies for the dimple of a rising fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: The hatch of the Green Drake | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...lines of what Castro has achieved in Cuba and what the Sandinistas have in mind for Nicaragua? One need not resort to the hackneyed image of falling dominoes to imagine that the sequential triumph of leftist revolutions and, perhaps more important, the establishment of leftist dictatorships around the waist of the Central American isthmus, could increase the chances of upheaval in Mexico, the largest and potentially most volatile nation in the region. If Mexico were transformed from a problem-ridden, rather resentful but basically friendly and dependent neighbor into a militarized, antagonistic one, oriented toward the Soviet Union internationally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Central America, No Quick Fix | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

...theory is that when sex was such a big deal, above the waist, below the waist, with stages of achievement marked on it like the United Appeal thermometer, they wanted it that way because you could win, scoring, you know? Our team against their team. One in the tooth for Mummy. So we said, you want it, fine, we want it too, and all of a sudden millions of pricks went limp. Nation wide! That's my theory...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Fear and Loathing in Suburbia | 7/19/1983 | See Source »

...Bedford but to buy some cigarettes. She stayed longer than she'd expected Police say that as the 21-years-old woman headed for the door to leave, she was assaulted by four men, who stripped her from the by four men, who stripped her from the waist down, forced her to commit oral sex, and raped her repeatedly. After more than two hours the woman managed to break free and run out of the bar for help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Perennial Issues | 7/15/1983 | See Source »

Princeton will not be accepting any students from its waist list, director of admissions 1.4 percent from last year and is currently 58.8 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions | 5/12/1983 | See Source »

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