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Word: canvassed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...DeJong victory, if it comes, will be tough.At Bulgers spacious campaign headquarters on EastEighth Street, South Boston, volunteers, many ofthem union members, make canvass phone calls longinto the night. And even on Newbury St., manypeople's faces take on a blank look when the nameDeJong--or Bulger, for that matter--is mentionedto them. One man asked about Bulger replied,"didn't he play the scarecrow in `The Wizard ofOz...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: The Battle Of the Bulger | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

Marina lapsed into a coma almost immediately after we had spoken to her. Only 38 hours after, she died of blunt trauma. The police continued with the same story and began to canvass the area to find out if anyone had seen the man following...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: In the Name of Justice | 10/4/1990 | See Source »

...worth of prime-time TV watching on all four broadcast networks. Why would anyone voluntarily subject himself to nearly 50 hours of sex-and-sass sitcoms, puerile police procedurals and yuppie yammering about the meaning of life? Call it a census of sorts, a time-slot-by-time-slot canvass of the nation's nightly fantasy life, a solitary journey up the lazy river of the collective consciousness armed only with VCR and fast-forward button. The goal was to view television through the eyes of an outsider and to pretend to encounter the Huxtables, Roseanne and, yes, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: What A Waste of (Prime) Time | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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