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Word: wretchedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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It won't just be diplomats having "full and frank discussions" during this week's demi-summit. Like a monk touring Las Vegas to understand what the fuss over sin is about, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev will travel to the mountaintop of conspicuous consumption and wretched excess: Trump Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Superpower to Another | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

"It's been pretty normal except for one wretched day last week. I couldn't believe how bad it was. We were going under the bridge and I was assaulted by an awful smell," said Eric LeVine '91, a heavyweight coxswain.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will Head Fans Find Charles Clean? | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

The professional baseball and football players of fortune and renown are inclined to minimize their natural talent, preferring to have it said they got the most out of a modest allotment. It's generally not true. A good number, maybe even a majority, are doing things that basically come very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: If Perspiration Could Be Quantified | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

You can amuse yourself with the film's budget, which some say was $63 million -- with about a quarter of that going to Sylvester Stallone. The producers insist that the excess was nowhere near so wretched, but Rambo III is still probably among the most expensive movies in history. So...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Muscles + Money = Excess RAMBO III | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

I lay for days in Stillman Infirmary, reliving the shocking events, and I vowed to myself that I would never again be so used. I formulated an intricate plan, brilliantly designed to take revenge on the wretched drivers of this urban jungle.

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Brain Strains and Automobiles | 2/25/1988 | See Source »

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