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Word: wee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wee teams playing each other will make for interesting football just so long as the two teams are equal in talent. The Three Stooges versus the Marx Brothers would be a great game because both are equally incompetent...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: In Search of Parity | 4/28/1988 | See Source »

Director Tim Burton (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure) has some poignant points to make about, well, life: that the dead must teach the living to savor it. Mostly, though, he wants to give good fun, to turn Winter River into West Eastwick, to ransack pop culture for references to everything from Topper to Tiny Alice. And to give Michael Keaton the chance to run productively wild. Keaton's Beetlejuice is a deliciously loathsome creature, whether shouting insults, lunching on insects or, in the film's climactic wedding scene, pulling a ring off a severed, shriveled finger and muttering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Funeral March to a Calypso Beat BEETLEJUICE | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...grant one exception to the one-time-only, one-in-365 theory. A guy on my pee-wee Little League team was born the day the Red Sox clinched the pennant in 1967. Naturally, he is a Red Sox fan, and naturally, he will probably approach baseball for the rest of his life with an unusually sunny outlook. Who wouldn't, born under such lucky stars...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Baseball: A Real Sport for Real People | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

Arizona: Who-wee, partner, we're the Arizona Wildcats and we just blew through our first two opponents (Seton Hall and Cornell). We're some big hombres, some rough and tough outlaws...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Sweet Sixteen | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

Ever since his pee-wee team won the national title when he was 12 years old, Ciavaglia has been a winner. He attended high school at Nichols where he became a local Gordie Howe during his senior year...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Not Badgered Into Coming to Harvard | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

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