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Word: interjection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...back who turn out to be practitioners of voice-over chic, tenderly broadcasting all the half-baked thoughts they ever half-understood about Fellini. Dial a phone number and the absent owner's talking machine coughs a set piece of cuteness before granting a moment for you to interject a brief message. As for bridge players, the typical foursome hardly finishes the play of a hand before the air burbles with a redundant rehashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Time to Reflect on Blah-Blah-Blah | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...exercised homeowners interject. "They may not be that high now, but they're going up all the time. We've got to stop it somehow." Indeed, Cantabrigians, who got their tax bills during the last two weeks, must have been rudely shocked. The tax rate last year was near $188 per thousand. This year, it hit $230, a large jump, even though Bay State homes are notoriously undervalued. But the rise is an exception to the rule; even counting this year's jump, city taxes have increased far less than the cost of living (and governing) during the past decade...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Modest Proposition | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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