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Word: waltz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people!" Gore tells her to be quiet. She shouts it again. Gore deputizes someone to go inside to get the proper credentials. As they are waiting, Tipper says, "Let's go dancing" -- but presumably not to rock music with suggestive lyrics. The right credentials are obtained, and the Gores waltz in. Did the security guard not recognize the erstwhile presidential candidate? "I didn't look at his face," she replies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats True-Life Tales from the Omni | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...policy. Jane Austen would keenly appreciate the spirited comedy of manners that is being played out inside the Democratic Party: like spinsters preening before the village bachelor, Democrats are jockeying for position in a future Dukakis Administration. Some call this genteel process Potomac Fever. Others view it as the Waltz of the Wise Men Wanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potomac Fever: the Latest Epidemic | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...accomplished dancer--tango, salsa, waltz and swing. She learned how to salsa while in Berlin last year. And when she wasn't studying or salsa-ing, Rodriguez worked at the Knecht Auto Oil Filter Company. Her duties at Knecht ranged from data processing and bookkeeping to serving on an assembly line...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: A Life of Breaking Down Barriers | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Whether that means cooking meals for her Russian emigre family, or organizing a spur-of-the-moment, May Day waltz on Weeks Bridge with her roommates, Rodriguez is up to the task...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: A Life of Breaking Down Barriers | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...dusty, unpaved road outside the Lajitas Trading Post is not exactly the best surface for shuffling through a slow waltz or high-stepping to the beat of La Bamba. But when the crush of couples on the polished concrete floor of the store's veranda became too great on a recent Friday night, a score or more of folks took to dancing in the street anyway. Scuffed cowboy boots and battered sneakers kicked up dust and occasionally sent crushed aluminum beer / cans skittering across the gravel surface. The excited yelps of dancers wafted off into the desert toward arid mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Easygoing on the Border | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

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