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Word: appalachia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Proposition 2 1/2 is an absolute disaster and will destroy our public school system." State Sen. Alan D. Sisitsky told the crowd, adding. 'We have to stop the effects of 2 1/2 before Massachussetts becomes a state like Appalachia...

Author: By George P. Bayliss, | Title: Area Students Rally Against Cutbacks | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...Thoroughbred in The Electric Horseman; Burt Reynolds and Sally Field midwifed a pregnant elephant in Smokey and the Bandit II; and now Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon transport a herd of cattle Coast to Coast. This picture follows the standard itinerary: "meeting cute" in Pennsylvania, mutual suspicion in Appalachia, fistfight and car crash in Kansas City, loving and leaving in the Rockies, reconciliation in California. At the fadeout, man, woman and cows are all contented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Funny Smell | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

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