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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...degrees F wind scoured the boards of his tiny home, gusting and swirling up to 30 m.p.h., drying, loosening, lofting, trying again to blow him away. The big prairie sun, without a wisp of cloud to soften it, hammered the land as far as a squinted eye could see, which is a long way out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Dakota: The Big Dry | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

From the air, a dry spell of even this magnitude is hard to see with the naked eye. Some fields are parched out, and crops are plainly scraggly. But the patchwork of greens and golds still reels by under jet wings heading west. The great shoulders of the Rockies have some snow on them still. It takes a closer inspection and a conditioned eye for full understanding. The trees of Minneapolis hide devastated home lawns and gardens. Out West, dry-weather weeds have sprung up in the draws of prairie pastures, adding deceptive color. All through the Midwest are fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Dakota: The Big Dry | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...regulate VDT use in the workplace. The ordinance applies to businesses that operate more than 20 VDTs and mandates a 15-minute break every three hours for workers who use the terminals more than 26 hours a week. Employers must contribute 80% of the cost of eyeglasses and yearly eye exams; by 1990, adjustable chairs and nonglare screens will be compulsory for all new equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Eyes on the VDT | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...straight off, though the resident welterweight Kevin Rooney was dubious. "He looked like a big liar to me; he looked old." Hearing that he was destined to be champ, Tyson shrugged laconically. But before long, everyone in the stable began to see him out of Cus's one good eye. "If he keeps listening," Rooney thought, "he's got a chance." The fighters' gym has a fascination of its own: the timeless loft, the faded posters, the dark and smelly world of the primeval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing's Allure | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...repudiation of Cheever's freewheeling manner. Cliches seem to certify sober, scholarly research: "Life was not all fun and games, however" . . . "The New Yorker's taste was genteel, and as time wore on Cheever wrote about everything under the sun" . . . "Fred was the apple of his father's eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man, but Not His Voice JOHN CHEEVER: A BIOGRAPHY | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

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