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Word: craps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...describes the vote as reflecting "no-nothing, nativist resentment toward this massive influx of people." But former Senator S.I. Hayakawa, a formidable semanticist who led the crusade, promised it was not meant to homogenize Californian life. * "If you want to host at your home a prayer meeting or a crap game in Serbo-Croatian or Greek or Swahili, there will be no linguistic gestapo to come break up your game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Notebook of Tall Winners, Big Losers, Frogs and a Bird | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...Damn it! Why the hell are you asking my name?" is Ingrid M. Geerken's imitation of "Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger. "Phonies are always asking crap like that. I don't know why, but they get a goddamn kick out of asking people who they are and what their names are and if they have a permanent mailing address. Those phony bastards really kill me. They want to know what your goddamn address is so that they can send you a goddamn letter saying that you're not good enough for them. Things like that really depress...

Author: By Sara O. Vargas, | Title: Yale Juniors Publish College Essay Anthology | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

...even more important, I learned what to do when Harvard gives me crap, as it has for four years. So the next time I drop my metaphorical tray in the great Union Dining Hall that is life, at least I won't let myself feel like a tool...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Four Years Later | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

...SYSTEM STANDS, history concentrators are engaged in a never-ending crap shoot. Will the course offered next year really be there come next September? Maybe, maybe not, nobody seems to know. History concentrators need assurances that the information they receive from the department in the course catalogue regarding course offerings is accurate and complete...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Information Please | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...Irish electrician and an Italian mother, Hill entered the crime business at age eleven, when he took a part-time job at a Brooklyn taxi stand run by the brother of a local mob boss. Under the capo's tutelage, Hill slowly learned how to run crap games, pass off counterfeit money, torch buildings for a fee and, finally, how to take over businesses and squeeze them dry. Along the crooked way, he married a nice middle-class girl from Long Island, who realized rather late that her husband was not just another up-and- coming businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wrong Lane Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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