At the age of eighty, she said this about her career: "My identity is very clear to me now.

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meaning killed. The Random House Historical Dictionary of Slang provides a possible explanation for the use of eighty-six in restaurants.

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This week we play music by blues great Koko Taylor, who died last week at the age of eighty.

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Out of eighty-seven countries with data available, forty-nine seem likely to reach that goal.

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The same dictionary also says another former definition of eighty-six was undesirable customer.

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She is one of eighty people who are volunteering at this urban farm.

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He died in his sleep in February,nineteen twenty-two, at the age of eighty-one.

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She died at the age of eighty-five, in August of nineteen hundred.

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Joe Glazer died in two thousand six at the age of eighty-eight.

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Mary Cassatt died in nineteen twenty-six at the age of eighty-two.

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General MacArthur died at the age of eighty-four in nineteen sixty-four.

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He died at the age of eighty-four on April fifth,nineteen sixty-four.

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R.Buckminster Fuller died in nineteen eighty-three at the age of eighty-seven.

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Benjamin Hooks died last week at the age of eighty-five.

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