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Word: wile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exchange to combat, but if so, it was the combat of Saturday morning cartoons: Bang! -- Poof! Boom! -- Poof! Language disintegrated on impact. When Bush slugged Rather with the line about Rather's once walking off the set of the CBS Evening News, the anchorman looked for an instant like Wile E. Coyote when, gimlet-eyed, he understands he is about to plummet into the abyss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Kingdom of Television | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...sports fan, the play strikes its highest marks with its hilarious observations of how players in the bullpen wile away many hours waiting to be called in on relief. This activity ranges from scoping girls and playing baseball trivia games to performing practical jokes and rough-housing. Among the funniest moments is when Frito calls Dave Winfield on the bullpen phone and pretends to be a police officer calling about a statuatory rape case involving the Yankee star...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Good, Not Very Clean Fun | 7/8/1986 | See Source »

...Boston is Beantown, Cambridge is Booktown. Though some may not opt to wile away summer hours by browsing through bookstores, if you do, you've come to the right place. With more than 25 bookstores within ten blocks, the Square rivals the University's 11-library collection. And with stores as varied as the Square's myriad of restaurants, both sophisticated bookaholics and novices can find something to surprise and please...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Browsing for Books | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

...Washington brand, appeared in 1909. The next year Florist's Transworld Delivery started sending flowers by wire. The spirit of hustle permeated pop culture, from the World War II-era song lyric, "Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry," to the Road Runner cartoon character who always leaves Wile E. Coyote in the dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in the Express Lane | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...formula sounds simple enough. But there is a hidden subtlety in it, which lies in the business of motivation. It is sufficient unto the length of an eight-minute animated short subject that Wile E. Coyote have an inexplicable obsession with capturing a pestiferous bird. If, on the other hand, we were asked to spend an hour and a half in the company of this immortal pair of mortal enemies, we would require some word beyond the occasional "beep- beep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Man of Few Grunts and No Beeps Cobra | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

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