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Word: broom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over. It has just begun with Jim, who says of Sigourney, "She's very smart. She's very affectionate. I'm very lucky." There are children in their future. And a Durang; Chris and Sigourney will keep acting, writing and capering. Though Weaver says she would "play anything -- a broom, a mop" in a Woody Allen film, she wants to be more than a housewife's helper in other roles. "Usually women in films have had to carry the burden of sympathy, only coming to life when a man enters. Doesn't everyone know that women are incredibly strong?" Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Years of Living Splendidly | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...hard to get that bottle back? I like to have something in my hand when I talk about the devil." And then he told a long tale or two that lasted till the pilgrims gained Jack Owens' yard. There were some goats tied up near a patch of broom sedge, and there was a white dog, thin as clothesline, tied to a dead Chevrolet Parkwood station wagon, and out back of the little house were 40 fresh-plowed acres. A dark, blustery front was coming in from the west. On the porch sat Jack Owens, a black man with startling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mississippi: Visiting Around | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...Ping-Pong every day, which I loved. Davey Senior was thrown out of his house for something, so he came to live with my mother and me. And then my grandmother moved in too. My grandmother was a rip; she used to beat up all the kids with a broom. Davey and me lived in the same house, but we didn't do nothin'--would you believe it? I was a virgin till I got married. I was a very good girl, raised myself with honor." She holds her fists over her head like a winning boxer and laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...20th century. As Halley's came into view in 1910, some residents of Chicago prepared themselves for death by cyanogen-gas poisoning when, as it was widely predicted, the earth passed through the comet's tail. As recently as 1970, Vietnamese peasants quaked at the sight of the "Sky Broom," the unexpectedly vivid passage of Bennett's comet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Historic Cometary Tales | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

Luckily, the Din and Tonics took care of the candy blues by leading the visitors in a rendition of "Conjunction Junction," as they headed off to broom races and a pretzel eating contest...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Public Service Program Entertains Local Kids | 11/1/1985 | See Source »

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