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Word: thirteenth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's basketball team entered Levien Gym in New York City Saturday night looking for its thirteenth consecutive Ivy League victory...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: W. Cagers Bounce Lions, Look to Ivy Title Drive | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Under Olympic regulations, each country's bobsled team is allowed to bring only 12 athletes to the games. The International Olympic Committee made a special ruling allowing the U.S. team to bring a thirteenth sledder. The top two sleds compete, while the third comes as an alternate...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Harvard Sledder Fights Onto U.S. Olympic Squad | 2/13/1988 | See Source »

Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell resigned in 1984, weary of fighting with White House aides over his budget. In The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir, to be published next year by the Free Press, Bell blasts unidentified "mid-level right-wing staffers at the White House" for a more disturbing characteristic: a proclivity for "sick humor and racist cliches." Examples: references to the late Martin Luther King Jr. as "Martin Lucifer Coon" and comments during discussions about the Middle East that Arabs were "sand niggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: Bell Tells A Sorry Story | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Director Lefter. It just isn't creative or spirited enough, and it is specifically creativity and spirit make a good adventure flick, not the final body count. If you're going to kill someone, at least kill them in an interesting way. Commando is nothing more than Friday the Thirteenth Part VI: 'Jason joins the army...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Bang, Bang | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

...entire program to one devastating series of films, a homegrown product that had to be exported to France before it gained its deserved recognition in this country. I'm speaking of course of the recent rerelease of all 13 parts of that American Gross-Out Gothic, Friday the Thirteenth...

Author: By Jeff Chest, | Title: They're Still Heeeere...' | 4/12/1985 | See Source »

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