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Word: glue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...address across the wings of his plane and plastered a stamp onto its nose. They were competing in four events -- distance, time aloft, aerobatics and aesthetic design -- in three divisions, professional, nonprofessional and junior. The cardinal rule was that the planes had to be made from paper, tape and glue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Seattle: the Right Stuff, with Paper and Glue | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...divorcee found work cementing shoes in a factory and rented a two-story house. She worked extra hours to pay her bills and, according to the Washington Post, would arrive home "in jeans and a sweatshirt covered with soot and glue, too tired to change clothes." Shalel Way, a friend in Skowhegan, told the Post that Barbara would complain, "Johnny Walker did this to me." She shared her secret with Way, even asking for a Tarot card reading to help her decide whether to tell the FBI. She claimed that John would get drunk, call her on the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Very Serious Losses | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

Last year, the tiles that comprise the surface of the track began developing bubbles, the problems were attributed to insufficient glue and when additional adhesive was applied over the summer, the bubbles disappeared...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Now It's Home Sweet Home | 5/3/1985 | See Source »

Halfway through dinner he says, 'Are we going to get between the sheets or not?' Cute, huh? Lucky thing I brought my own car." She takes out a tube of Super Glue and, in a surrealistic gesture worthy of Buftuel, reattaches a thumbnail that is one and a half inches long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...punched her in the stomach, bound her with a clothesline and locked her in the trunk of his car. Wilder allegedly drove her to a motel in Bainbridge, Ga., where he raped her and tortured her with electric shocks, at one point attempting to seal shut her eyes with glue. She escaped into a bathroom, locking herself in and screaming so loudly that she attracted rescuers and caused Wilder to flee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trail of Death | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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