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Word: cobblers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before becoming the home of the Cambridge Toy Box, the Spite Building has served as a cobbler's shop, candy store, newspaper storage area and shoe store, Hardina said...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: Oddly Shaped Store Has a Quirky Past | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

...Supreme Court decision--declaring the Second and 11th Districts unconstitutionally gerrymandered on the basis of race--has made this year's Georgia election something of a peach cobbler. All the state's 11 congressional districts had to be redrawn; African Americans lost their majority in two of three districts. Though conservative Republicans saw this upheaval as an opportunity, Cynthia McKinney is on track to defeat those expectations--and perhaps the odds--in the newly constituted Fourth. And the question much of the nation is asking is whether Newt Gingrich will be gone with the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: GEORGIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...they are. Riding home on Air Force One two weeks ago, Clinton chatted off the record for nearly two hours on everything from the new Redford movies, the pitfalls of instant information, the prospect of living past 100, the importance of cheap vacations to American culture, global warming, peach cobbler and the NCAA basketball playoffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW AGE OF ANXIETY | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...didn't know what was going on. Someone yelled, 'It's gas!'" Looking back, Vukovich, whose eyes and head were beginning to hurt, glimpsed the puddle. Next to it sat an immobile old man. His name, it turned out, was Shunkichi Watanabe; he was a retired cobbler. He was already dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN'S PROPHET OF POISON: Shoko Asahara | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...director -- a roly-poly guy who resembled the cop (far right) in Who Killed Who? -- could make movies that were cute and fun. Avery created sweet, but crazy, Disney-style elves in the charmfest The Peachy Cobbler. The perennially rejected skunk star of the delightful Little 'Tinker is wondrously resilient, pouting for a millisecond before leaping for joy in anticipation of his next true love. An Avery hero had to have a heart, if only so it could be broken. Also spindled, mutilated, detonated -- or bursting bomblike out of his chest, for all the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Like the Mask? | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

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