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Word: thou (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blasphemer. Sinner. A pox on thee and on thy children's children. May you choke on a wishbone. Thou shalt be cast unto the deepest pit of the abyss. And there shall rise a foul beast, a beast of the sorrowful appellation, "Benno." And in the seventh fire of the seventh hell shalt thou be tormented by the unrepentant spirit of Brian Dowling. And your skin shall be as pigskin, and your heart pierced by the spikes of vengeful Harvard guard Doug Rosenberry...

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

Just before the inevitable verdict came down last week, a gaggle of Jim Bakker's faithful backers defiantly held aloft a King James Bible opened to Psalm 17: 3: "Thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing." But the jury sang a different psalm: Guilty as charged on all 24 counts of defrauding the public of $3.7 million via TV, phone and mail. Testimony about one of the ripest scandals in U.S. religious history had consumed 25 days; the jury needed less than eleven hours to decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Judgment Day | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...mate, Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater, he also wants to see his party recapture the Senate, as well as statehouses and city halls all over the nation. But unlike Atwater, whose blues-playing, guitar-strumming sideswipes can be entertaining, Gingrich approaches his mission with a humorless holier-than-thou style that makes him easy to dislike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans' Pit Bull | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...public rarely gets the chance to hear Bill Murray reciting lines like "When thou must home to shades of underground," or Christopher Reeve reading from the works of Emerson and Keats...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Actors Join to Read From Alfred's Poetry | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

Religious enthusiast and son-in-law William Roper (John Malone), with his monkish garb and holier-than-thou epithets is every father's worst nightmare. Only angelic daughter Margaret, played by a convincingly sweet Mary-Dixie Carter, is able to soothe her father's troubled conscience without reproach...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: More Than a History Lecture | 3/17/1989 | See Source »

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