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Word: airs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tradition is carried on at the end of every football game, when band members throw yellow flowers up into the air...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Band Celebrates 80 Years with Weekend of Festivities | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...their final piece, the student conductor raised his hands in the air and dropped through the middle of his tube. The horns slowly slid underwater, the final note gurgling away...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Band Celebrates 80 Years with Weekend of Festivities | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...Mother Earth Bell, weighs 13 tons. It is rung at the beginning and end of each concert and it takes two people standing inside its maw to swing the giant clapper between them. The brute force of that bronze behemoth and its lesser brothers, spilling out into the drowsy air of the Square, is well worth a dissonance...

Author: By Jérôme L. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: clöserlook: Ringing the Bells of Death and Famine | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...small fire continued near the driver's seat until the flames consumed the rest of the bus, sending a thick cloud of black smoke and a foul odor into the air, witnesses said...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fire Consumes Shuttle Bus Near Annenberg Hall | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...took 29 years, but darn it, the Clean Air Act is finally being enforced. This came as some surprise to seven huge electric companies, all of which were slapped with lawsuits Wednesday. The Environmental Protection Agency charges that the companies defied landmark anti-pollution regulations at their 32 coal-burning plants. The Clean Air Act of 1970 allowed existing plants to continue production without undergoing the costly modernization process required to bring them up to speed with new regulations. Companies were permitted to perform only routine maintenance at the plants, and if any major renovations were undertaken, the plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Can See Clearly Now, the Toxic Smoke Has Gone | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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