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Word: weird (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SOON as I was settled, the nurse informed me that she had to remove some of that weird red liquid that once did something vital in my body. She also said she had to measure the pressure of the liquid that was still doing something vital in my body. Fine, I thought--common procedure for incoming patients...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I Can't Get No Sleep | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...tells us some weird things, like about Aborigines communicating with each other over 12 miles by talking to trees," says Andrew L. Nash '87, one of Cudmore's students. "But in context, you realize he does it to keep our minds open, to get us thinking in new ways...

Author: By Rebecca W. Carman, | Title: From Flying Cars to Expanding Minds | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

...absolutely weird looking, but delicious...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...weird aspect of the utterances voiced in that room, though, was that these fellows actually thought they could become rich, $41 million rich, by working for Dillon Read or Kidder Peabody...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: ENDPAPER | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...performers and their claims. All are authentic wonders, especially Max Malini, who could remain at a dinner table for hours, then lift his hat to reveal a large chunk of unmelted ice. A difficult act to follow, one would think, but Jay has scores of others just as weird and irresistible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Feb. 9, 1987 | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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