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Word: mashed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slaughter last January of five Stockton, Calif., schoolchildren by a psychopath wielding an imitation AK-47 assault rifle awakened the public to the danger of these paramilitary weapons. Police have complained of being outgunned by drug dealers with Uzis and AR- 15s. Urban emergency rooms have started resembling MASH units, with doctors treating the sort of huge gunshot wounds once seen only in combat. The Second Amendment notwithstanding, more and more Americans have decided that something must be done to stem the nation's internal arms race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gunning For Assault Rifles | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...performance is all in her appearance--with her faint moustache, one long eyebrow, and house-sized black lace dress--but even better is her body language. Shaking her groove thing, or two, comes natural to Mama, as she forcefully swats a bat and lurches her hips in the "Mobster Mash" number...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Hasty Pudding Theatricals: Puttin' on the Blitz | 2/22/1989 | See Source »

...virtue of its subject matter Mastergate cannot help but be funny. The televised Iran-Contra hearings gave us a glimpse, and a nauseating one at that, of the theater of politics. And Gelbart, the creator of the long-lived MASH television series, has no trouble at making the macabre laughable...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Is It Real, or Is It Memorex? | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

...reporter: $50,000 a year, with no experience required, except an apparent aptitude for spying on the celebrity species.) The Fleet Streeters began arriving in droves during the 1970s, enough of them to field cricket games, fill dart rooms and prompt some local eateries to include bangers and mash on their menus. Their presence in turn encouraged other tabloids to set up shop nearby -- the Globe, the National Examiner, the Sun and the Weekly World News (son of Enquirer, to the irreverent) -- transforming Lantana and its environs into the tabloid capital of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: The Rogues of Tabloid Valley | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

Although only Winthrop House residents saw this week's performance of Antonin Artaud's Jet of Blood, the group plans to go to every house to perform a variety of short plays. Next week will feature Mish Mash Bash, and eventually, says Weiner, the group will build up a repertory of plays, switching scripts from room to room...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Knock, Knock, Play's Here | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

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