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Word: floorful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to police reports, the blaze broke out at about 9 a.m. on December 30 in the sixth-floor suite where Michael D. Cooperson '87 was sleeping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire in Quincy House Suite Burns Couch | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...still there, packing T shirts for his two young daughters. "I'm gone so much, I'm surprised they recognize me," said Miyo Molale. Another miner, Philip Moshigo, was even tying up a double bed and mattress for the trip home. "My family has been sleeping on the floor," he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Back Home for the Holidays | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...holds true, we found last week, even when those grownups work for TIME. Editors, writers and reporter-researchers often found it necessary to interrupt their tasks to poke through the mountain of dolls, blocks and robots that was amassed for the story in an empty office on our 26th floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Dec. 22, 1986 | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...designers. What epitomized the machine age better: a gas pump quoted in a painting by Stuart Davis or a DC-3? John Marin's watercolors of the New York skyline or the Empire State Building itself, surging upward before the astonished eyes of Gotham at the rate of one floor a day? A relief sculpture by Charles Biederman or the prodigious steel catenaries of Othmar H. Ammann's design for the George Washington Bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Back to the Lost Future | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...some of its more exotic functions (such as answering the door or serving morning o.j. in bed at a preselected time), but the remote control is easy to operate after a minute's tutorial. Omnibot will raise its right arm, flash its eyes, open its hand, scuttle across the floor, make sharp turns, all at the press of a button or two. It will even speak with the child's taped voice and could conceivably serve as a referee for all the games that boil down to . . . blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: O.K., Santa, Make My Day | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

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