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Word: jacket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the costuming was also well-done and frequently quite amusing. All of it was reasonably true to the time period (with the exception of the sailors' black loafers). And Sir Joseph's life-jacket, complete with gold tassels to assert his importance and the nighteap and gown which he later sports, made him even more of a comic figure...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: An Unsteady Ship | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

According to police records, the group of four white males approached the student shortly after 1 a.m. The student told police that the four punched and kicked him and then stole his $200 brown leather jacket and a wallet containing $5 in cash...

Author: By Salil Kumar, | Title: Student Assaulted In Yard | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

...jacket. This is a holy war. The weather won't stand in our way. In fact, the aforementioned Adams House sorceress plans to call for a hurricane. Rejoice in the storm! The 150 m.p.h. winds--ordered to blow in the proper direction, of course--will turn the measliest Harvard screen pass into a potential 30-yard gain. We won't even need to tackle Yale's running backs, as the wind will push the Elis back into their own end zone for a Harvard safety...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: There's No Excuse to Stay in Cambridge | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

...same moment, has no inkling of the earthquake either. (The news reaches him later, midway through the show, though he doesn't mention it on the air.) With minutes to go before his 5:15 deadline, he is in his dressing room, slipping into a stylish double-breasted jacket, glancing briefly at his cue cards and getting some final dabs of makeup. With only seconds to spare, he bops downstairs, wades through a phalanx of enthusiastic staffers, then darts behind a blue translucent curtain. The band blares, the announcer wails. Hall sinks to one knee for a few seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Let's Get Busy!! | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Bush--dressed to match school colors in a conservative blue jacket--reminisced, 200 "polite and avid" student and faculty protested administration stances against gay and lesbian rights, abortion rights and Nicaraguan autonomy, Wise said...

Author: By Darcy L. Tromanhauser, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Bush Goes To Andover | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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