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Word: surfer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joni (pronounced Johnny) Eareckson doesn't surfer the kind of deformity that causes people to point or stare. With her pretty girl-next-door looks, radiant smile, and pert, no-nonsense personality, she is a popular speaker on the Evangelical Protestant celebrity circuit and to nonreligious groups. As she readily admits, she is treated better than most of her fellow disabled Americans. But Joni Eareckson, 31, is totally paralyzed from the neck down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: This Is a God I Can Trust | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...going to say but also how to make it look unrehearsed. Brown's political fickleness on Proposition 13 may have saved him a gubernatorial election at the price of deeply scarring his political future; in the words of West Coast journalist Mary Ellen Leary, he has been branded "a surfer on every popular wave, a politician who veers to the current fad with an intuition as unerring as a heat-seeking missile on the hunt of its target...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Suffering a Change in Fashion | 2/14/1980 | See Source »

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