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Word: compactors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dictionary, it is something that "wants firmness or texture of substance; flimsy." Mr. Webster, however, was obviously not a politician. "Sleaze" may mean "flimsy." but it also connotes crime: "illegal sleaze." for example, was used to describe a senator using government funds to buy his wife a trash compactor...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: A Sleaze Overdose | 10/4/1984 | See Source »

Sears has 366 buyers and 302 assistant buyers, each assigned to a Sears product line, to watch over its purchases. Department 622, for example, is cooking-center appliances. Five buyers deal with three rangemakers, two dishwasher sources, one garbage-compactor company and one microwave-oven maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sear's Sizzling New Vitality | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...back at out throats with evangelist zeal. Enough is enough: I'm beginning to cry From all of the dreck that's assaulting my eye. Oh. Doctor, this magazine sure needs a cure. But only a blow-torch could render it pure. I'd throw it out, in the compactor yet. But they're going to publish a bound volume set. Oh, they're stronger than me. They'll print volume seven, While I grumble and gripe from a cloud up in heaven...

Author: By Gregory M. Daniels, | Title: PEOPLE, Not People Like You | 3/3/1984 | See Source »

...trash compactor...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Anything Can Happen | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...then you get to watch the troupe blend these various suggestions into the lyrics of blues numbers ("I wanna be your trash compactor baby...") or TV talk shows or real life situations ("Okay, what do we have? A cheerleader and a hairdresser riding the T? All right...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Anything Can Happen | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

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