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Word: unkind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supernatural is more fun. Maybe Harvard football Coach Joe Restic made some kind of deal with those sports gods to secure The Game next Saturday. Maybe Derek Bok once said something unkind about Melville. Maybe...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Spouting Off About the Curse of the Yale Whale | 11/11/1989 | See Source »

...More's the pity. I see that you write many unkind things about well-known personalities -- Nixon, Carter, Reagan, especially Geraldo Rivera. Why do you keep picking on Geraldo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with DAVE BARRY: Madcap Airs All | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...Arizona and Florida, all states with large colonies of retirees. In Florida 17% of all motorists are 65 and over, and an astonishing 22,268 are 90 or over. In the wealthier districts of metropolises, like Tampa-St. Petersburg and Miami, the profusion of elderly drivers has acquired an unkind nickname: the "cataracts and Cadillacs" syndrome. In 1982 a public hue and cry arose over the driving record of an 81-year-old Miami Beach woman who surrendered her license after a 39-month streak during which she struck eleven people, killing three and critically injuring five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Driver Be Too Old? | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...second tournament in a row, the weather was unkind to the Crimson. The tournament was played on two courses, the tougher 'blue' or ocean course (par 72) and the more forgiving 'green' or inland course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Finish 19th In Tourney | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

...field without grass is an eyesore," wrote the Roman poet Ovid, "so is a tree without leaves, so is a head without hair." For centuries, bald and balding men have winced at such unkind references to their predicament. Conditioned to regard hairlessness as a male curse second only to impotence, they have historically taken drastic measures to undo their baldness. Some have pretended to own hair, bewigging their shining pates with nylon or natural locks; others have recycled what little thatching they have left, combing a few camouflaging strands across their brows or having "plugs" transplanted from one part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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