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Word: occasional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

.Sang a congratulatory round of "Happy Birthday" to councillor Sheila T. Russell on the occasion of her "annual 39th birthday."

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Council Temporarily Stalls Stop & Shop Sale | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

John Belushi and Gilda Radner are no longer around. The other Not Ready for Prime Time originals have phased into either obscurity or fat-cat Hollywood stardom. The baby boomers who discovered the show in the mid-'70s are now watching alongside their kids and struggling to keep up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: At 15, Saturday Night Lives | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

For six months Chicago's commodities traders had been nervously waiting for the big shoe to drop. The FBI announced last January that its agents had quietly penetrated the trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Mercantile Exchange and found them to be full of snakes. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snakes in The Pits | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

"Since the election, I've heard virtually nothing from the powers that be about the war on drugs," Von Raab protests. "On occasion there is a ceremonial session in which some official talks to us for ten minutes, but as a practical matter, we have been becalmed for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Loose Cannon's Parting Shot | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

On one occasion, Hazelwood and Laraway got so drunk that they made believe Laraway's convertible Volkswagen was a skateboard. Driving down a steep road, they switched off the engine, leaped into the back and shifted their weight to try to steer the vehicle. During yet another inebriated escapade, Laraway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Joe's Bad Tripon the Exxon Valdez | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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