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Word: hulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blankets and quilts I can find. If you get pneumonia, that's it." In Wisconsin's Green County, two 65-year-old widows have moved into one house to save on fuel costs. In Chicago, volunteers are knitting mittens and scarves for poor children while the city's Hull House Community Center conducts weatherizing workshops for residents of the surrounding low-income neighborhood. In East Lansing, Mich., a "community tool box" provides tools necessary for home insulation. In Little Rock, Gloria Wilson, a mother of seven and the wife of a mechanic, dreads the first winter gas bill. She does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...Raise the Titanic!'', a film likely to become memorable only because it seeks to salvage the ill-fated liner for a change-rather than deep-six her again. In the movie the DEMS drops into waters unsafe for divers to repair the Titanic's hull. On the set, its operators insisted, DEMS was so sensitive it not only could pour tea but even unzip zippers. At that point, Her Ladyship decamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 5, 1979 | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...sleek white vessel nosed into Tokyo harbor last week, the Japanese markings were clearly visible on the superstructure. The crew of the 13,000-ton vessel was Japanese too, from the ship's captain to the deckhands. But emblazoned on the hull in red, white and blue letters was a most un-Japanese name: Boutique America. Below deck the contrast was even greater. The cargo area was an entire department store of U.S. consumer goods, ranging from golf clubs and fishing gear to pots and pans, jewelry, evening dresses and even slabs of sirloin steak. Displayed at specially constructed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Slowing the Juggernaut | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...quite an investment. I've got to get it back." How much? "That's my secret." The Leavitt will use cotton sails, partly because they are cheaper, partly because they wear longer on a working ship. A set will probably cost $15,000. Her hull and spars must have cost more than $350,000. The total outlay had to be considerable. But, snaps Ackerman, "whatever it is, there is no mortgage. Not one cent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: A Bold Launching into the Past | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

Nahant, Nantasket, and Revere Beaches. These beaches hang on the city limits of Boston, in Nahant. Hull and Revere, respectively. They are MDC maintained, and they look it. On a busy weekend, most people don't bother to police their bad instincts, so what you have is a lot of trash. Revere and Nantasket have always been adjacent to amusement parks, and the hush of the waves is complimented by traffic noise and the sound of nearby mechanical thrills. Revere Beach, however, is beginning to clean up its act--the amusements are going elsewhere, and the beach is expected...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Like Lemmings to the Sea... | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

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