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Word: wanna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became a Mirror reporter. He quickly learned the dynamics of his new editorial responsibility. "My editor wrote a story about how inmates were smuggling reefer in here in balloons," Taliaferro recalls. "I told him, 'You don't sit up here and put that stuff in the newspaper. You wanna get yourself killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mirror A Free Press Flourishes | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...either portrait of the American student--be it of the self-centered Wall Street wanna-be of the Reagan years or the new civic-minded academicians--is all that valid. Chances are that far less than one-tenth of one percent of college students end up making $80,000 in their first year out in the real world. Likewise, whatever recent surveys may suggest about suddenly altruistic and selfless students, it seems unlikely that future college grads will flock in any great numbers to teaching underprivileged high school students...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: A New Generation? | 11/23/1988 | See Source »

Neither is Vice President George Bush spared the group's antics. To the tune of "Cat and the Cradle," they sing, "I wanna be just like you, Ron, you know I'll be just like...

Author: By Peter S. Kozinets, | Title: Satire Troupe to Perform | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

...bound A' s and the self- effacing Dodgers, California has made a private preserve of the annual passage Tommy Lasorda actually calls "the fall classic." Orel Hershiser peers in for the sign; Jose Canseco lifts a bolt of mountain ash. When they are finished, winter will be in sight. -- Wanna do an inning of play- by- play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Oct. 24, 1988 | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

Life of the party, this killer Krueger, with a mot for every murder. "This is it, Jennifer," he tells an aspiring young actress before smashing her head into a television set, "your big break in TV!" He impudently asks a girl, "Wanna suck face?" and does so, fatally. He drowns one horny lad in his water bed: "How's this for a wet dream?" At a nightmare diner ("If the food don't kill ya, the service will!"), he transforms one boy, literally, into a pizza face ("Rick, you little meatball!"), then devours him ("Mmmm, soul food!"). Another victim sprouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Did You Ever See a Dream Stalking? | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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