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Word: dryer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heat of the laundry rooms. But according to Kristin M. Daly '89, co-director of Peer Contraceptive Counseling, the condoms will not be damaged by the heat. "It wouldn't damage the condoms if they're in the [condom] machine, unless [the machine] was attached to a dryer," she added...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Condom Machines Installed in Houses | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...discovered this attitude one day in the Botanical Gardens laundry room. While I was silently adding Clorox to my wash, a blue-haired elderly woman suddenly turned from putting her wash in the dryer and clicked over to me in her orthopedic shoes. Holding a ball of lint in her hands, like a damning piece of evidence, she began her verbal onslaught...

Author: By David Sugrue, | Title: The Dull Edge | 2/25/1988 | See Source »

...when you're dealing with broken things, you're also dealing in funny stories about how people broke their things. Like? "Some guy came in with a broken watch. Said he'd put it through the washer and dryer...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: Almost Quitting Time | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

...phenomena can be modeled more easily than those affecting small areas. So when it comes to the global warming produced by the greenhouse effect, for example, the outlines are predictable but the specifics are not. Says Manabe: "All we can say is that maybe the mid-continental U.S. becomes dryer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Cloudy Crystal Balls | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...Tuck's apartment; a project leader named Ozzie, for Oswald the Rabbit; a cameo turn by Chuck Jones, the cartoon auteur who developed Bugs Bunny. Is the plot conflict as pure as an archetypal Western shoot-out? Then one bad guy, the Cowboy (Robert Picardo), will twirl his hair dryer like a six-shooter while he sings I'm an Old Cowhand; and another, the thug-chauffeur Igoe (Vernon Wells), will shoot a man through the gloved finger of his steel hand and then, to impress a gawking boy, blow smoke from the glove's ruptured finger. Is the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Funny, Fantastic Voyage INNERSPACE | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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