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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After "warm-up," Satan turns on music that the CIA used effectively for many years to get information from captured spies. The music usually juxtaposes a verb--such as "push" or "beat"--with the word "it" and repeats this inventive combination for 10 minutes at a time...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Low-Impact, High Pain | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

...word "mafioso" to describe a member of a criminal organization displays the very kind of bias your review purports to loathe. It perpetuates the insulting and degrading view of Italian-Americans as godfathers and hit-men. And while I do not deny that a small minority of Italians belonged to violent criminals organizations, I challenge Mr. Troyer to name one ethnic group which has not produced a criminal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Mafioso' Use Racist | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

Although the word isn't in from students yet, many professors say that the Harvard Coop is doing an adequate job this fall in stocking text books for their courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Can't Find Books? Don't Blame The Coop Now, Professors Say | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

Before I use every nonexistent positive from of a negative word known to man, I'd better get to the point. I want a new team. A team I could die for, and call Sportsphone for, and skip "60 Minutes" for if it went into...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: A Man in Search of a Football Team | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

...success. Says senior vice president K. Terry Koonce of the 1,100 miles of shoreline treated: "It's reasonably clean; it's pretty pristine." The Coast Guard, which must sign off on the work Exxon has done, is more guarded. "We don't like to use the word clean," says Captain Zawadzki. "It's not as easy as washing dishes." Protecting itself against future charges that it let Exxon off the hook, the Coast Guard will / certify only that the company's cleanup plan has been executed as described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Stain Will Remain On Alaska | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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