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Word: wiltedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Will the blue flowers find their white knight? Big money loves a fresh picture, but Irises at this point in its market career is looking a trifle wilted.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Anatomy of a Deal | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

"And don't forget the salad bar," Deep Throat sighed. "Wilted lettuce, wooden tomatoes, tasteless carrots. It's all so disheartening."

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Dining Hall-Gate | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

Thousands of miles away, on a U.S. domestic airliner, another flight attendant strides down the aisle and deposits a tiny tray of what is optimistically described as chicken Kiev. A ragged strip of batter and bone soaked in an indeterminate broth, nested in some wilted greens, alongside a piece of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: You Want Me to Eat THIS? | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Just hours before the Senate righteously denounced and rejected the pay raise (knowing full well that the House would ride to the rescue), a wilted Wright reversed field, declaring that the House would vote after all -- to reduce the pay hike, once it goes into effect, to 30%. That would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Games Congress Plays | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

When a freeze wilted half the flowers prepared for this year's Tournament of Roses Parade, two jets from Avianca, the Colombian airline, flew to Los Angeles with enough carnations to keep the beauty queens in the pink. But similar rescues will not be possible for a while, at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARGO: Cocaine and Carnations | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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