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Word: hones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with 5,600 convicts. Most are hardened criminals serving long sentences for crimes ranging from arson to rape and murder. Jackson's undermanned staff -there is only one guard for every 100 inmates-admits that it cannot cope with the heavily armed prisoners; according to one estimate they hone and hide more than 50 knives a day in the workshops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prison Nightmare | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

After 40 years, the play still provides a delightful evening because Barry could hone a comic line like a Sheffield blade. Director Ellis Rabb does full justice to that, but he scants the social subtext of what is, in some ways, a defense of snobbery. Without carrying Brechtian placards, the play says in a variety of ways: "Marry your own kind," "Wealth sanctifies," "Avoid lesser breeds (like maids and intrusive upstart journalists) who violate the elitist code of being 'yare.' " That is the saline substance beneath the sleek surface of The Philadelphia Story, and it is only fitfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Caste Marks | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Harvard football enters the staging area today, two straight games against non-Ivy opponents in which the Crimson will attempt to hone its attack, polish its defense and stay healthy. Oh, yeah...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Holy Cross to Play on Gridders' Hit Parade | 9/27/1980 | See Source »

...rock, gas, steam and ash belched from the earth, scientists have gained new knowledge about how minerals are formed, where promising geothermal resources may be located, even how the inner churnings of the earth are altering its surface. Not the least of the benefits is that the investigations can hone the skills of volcanologists in predicting future eruptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Windows into the Restless Earth | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...what the hurry is," Councilor Thomas W. Danehy told the council recently. "Let's take the time to plan--to smooth out, to hone, to refine," he added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Trouble Developing? | 5/6/1980 | See Source »

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