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Word: cements (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After turning the News front page into a graphic jungle of black boxes and red arrows, Murdoch provided a daily diet of rape and mayhem, tortured tots and killer bees. One classic story: "A divorced epileptic, who told police she was buried alive in a bathtub full of wet cement and later hanged upside down in the nude, left San Antonio for good this weekend. The tiny, half-blind woman, suffering from diabetes, recounted for the News a bizarre horror story filled with rape, torture and starvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BATTLE OF NEW YORK | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Well, at least Esther and John Norman get to put up an adobe house in the Arizona desert together before the sad end. They do it with the aid of a tractor and a cement mixer, in about half the screen time it takes Streisand to get through her everlasting final song. It must be said that, for all concerned, the song is harder work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Barbra, a One-Woman Hippodrome | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...like shutters to slow cooling. Similar systems work almost as well in colder climates. In Bedford, N.H., Ralph Tyrrell and Holly Anderson share a three-bedroom house that obtains its heat directly from the sun. South-facing windows catch the sun's rays during the day; foot-thick cement walls absorb heat and help prevent heat loss at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Gift from the Sun | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...enrollment in an integrated public school, could change more hearts and minds than a laundry list of bills. Carter's interest in solar energy has already created ripples in that industry. The simple act of trusting the American people, something that Richard Nixon could never do, can cement this society and can create a powerful force for the general good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Not Laws but Inspiration | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...factory. UFW staff member Johnson says they did not endorse the boycott because they feared that the militant UFW would strike and shut off the flow through the factory, forcing lay-offs of other workers. One of the reasons the Teamsters wanted to unionize the field workers was to cement their hold on the food industry from the fields to the trucks to the stores, he adds...

Author: By Anthony Y. Strike, | Title: New wine in old bottles: The Gallo case reopened | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

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