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Word: glue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal Christmas tree by special interests. This may be good political strategy, but it is poor public policy." Indianapolis Mayor William H. Hudnut III counts 498 federal programs that benefit cities and adds sarcastically, "There are 497 of these less important than general revenue sharing. It is the glue that holds the city's budget together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where the Ax Will Fall | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...them. Onstage, the boys look like aging incorrigibles, the bottom four students in the remedial class at vocational high school. They play with headlong, madcap and deliberately amateurish intensity punctuated with agog appraisals of the audience. Gazing out at the roistering hordes, the Ramones look like a quartet of glue sniffers who have just crashed a model-plane convention. Adoring audiences respond in kind; they cheer when Joey brandishes a black and yellow sign that reads GABBA ABBA HEY!, the Ramones' own e pluribus unum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Going After the Real Nuts | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...places. The rioting inmates then ran amuck through the 37-acre prison grounds. Some rushed to the workrooms for boards, pipes, acetylene torches, anything that could be used as a weapon. Others broke open cabinets in the pharmacy for drugs-tranquilizers, barbiturates, even insulin. A few found containers of glue, which they sniffed to get high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What Happened to Our Men? | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...house on McDougall Avenue in Hamtramck, Mich., and sets out on the five-minute drive to work. Normally, she would make this trip three hours earlier, eat a cafeteria breakfast and start her job at 6 a.m. on the fifth floor of the Dodge Main Assembly Plant, putting glue on doors, cleaning out loose bolts and putting a plastic water shield and two pieces of felt into passing Aspens and Volares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Michigan: Goodbye, Dodge Main | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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