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Word: coffeepots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just take the great martial powers of modern times: the U.S., the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain, Japan, China and Israel. The age of America's expansion in the 19th century was marked by the low-tech coffeepot that was left on the fire until the brew inside had thickened into a blackish acid just right for tanning buffalo hides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latte Lightweights | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...used to spot a temp a mile away. He would show up at the office for a day, asking too many questions, trying to remember the firm's name when answering the phone, unable to find the coffeepot or get the copier to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rise Of The Permatemp | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...East Germany's attempts to "produce a worker for the worker's state, someone not too smart, not too skeptical." When Peter first arrives in Hamburg in 1985, Kramer writes, "He had a little cassette player, tapes by Pink Floyd, Grace Slick, and the Grateful Dead, a filter coffeepot, and two hundred and fifty grams of Jacobs Fein und Mild Guatemala-blend coffee. He had everything he needed until someone came and told him what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: EAST IS EAST, WEST IS WEST | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...example among many is Woman with a Coffeepot, circa 1895. One would need to go back 400 years, to Piero della Francesca's Madonna del Parto, to find a painted human figure of such monumental gravity. All is volume, all is power, not only the large masses--the head that seems hewn from some skin-colored rock, the torso and the flaring blue pyramid of the skirt, the cylindrical coffeepot and the cup with the spoon set vertically in it--but also the microforms, such as the knot tying the woman's apron at her waist, which has the finality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: MODERNISM'S PATRIARCH | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...engineers like to say, a clever hack -- one that touched the basic urge in computer users to control the world through their keyboards -- and it soon spawned imitators. At the University of Cambridge, for example, British students aimed a camera at the computer lab's coffeepot and transmitted, on demand, digital snapshots of the state of the brew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snowballs in Cyberspace | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

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