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Word: dusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time the dust had settled after the singles competition, the Crimson already stood at 6-0 and had clinched their first Eastern league victory of the season. They continued to assert their dominance, ultimately crushing Navy...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Crimson Netmen Launch Into Season With 8-1 Victory Over Midshipmen | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

...time. That's what Scalise points to when he talks about the troubles of a team with ten freshmen and an unsettled line-up, a team whose biggest problem against Boston College was shooting the ball, a skill that takes time to polish after your stick's been collecting dust in the closet since last summer...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: The Laxmen Labor, Injured and Out of Practice | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

...SelectaVision is a simpler system that works more like a conventional record player. The viewer slips the disc, including the dust cover, into the front of the machine and then pulls the cover back out before the feature starts. A cartridge with a diamond stylus tracks 27,000 incredibly tiny grooves on the record to reproduce the picture. Unlike the laser system, the RCA device cannot find scenes at random or freeze a frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three's a Crowd in Videodiscs | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

Interstate 5, south of Modesto, is one of the most desolate and dreary stretches of road in the world. Skirting Bakersfield. Fresno, Chico, and Merced, it slices north through the unending flatland of California's Great Central Valley. It is a road of dust and heat and pale skies and dull landscapes and garish billboards peeling under the baking sun. Most of the year it is empty...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Head for the Hills, Quietly | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...July, when the dust is worst and even the parched grapevines have withered and died, there are traffic jams on 1-5. The highway is a main route to the Sierras...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Head for the Hills, Quietly | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

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