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Word: ironical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burn them in its power plants in the ratio of one part trash to nine parts coal. By 1977 Union Electric will build several collection yards where the refuse will be transferred from private or municipal trucks to rail cars. At the power plants, recyclable materials (iron, steel, aluminum and glass) will be removed and the rest of the wastes burned. Antipollution devices will trap and treat soot and gases in the smokestacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUELS: Garbage Power | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...technique used in the 1800s in which a prisoner is choked to death and his spine snapped by an iron collar being tightened around his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Bishop and The Basques | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...tucked off in the corner of the yard, kind of out of the way, kind of unobtrusive, kind of nondescript... In the vernacular of convicts it's known as the "iron pile" and is the pastime for weight lifters, body builders and ego trippers ... From work call to lunch hour, ironpushin' regulars hit the pile with predictable regularity ... To them, working out is a contest of who is the strongest, who is the baddest... As the sun slides down ... style is now trump and all hands hold the boss suit. Pump-up freaks are in the game; they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Words From the Inside Out | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...Gary Taylor from Iron Pile, an unfinished novel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Words From the Inside Out | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...sundry elil (enemies) known to rabbits, not excluding other rabbits. The rabbit-you-love-to-hiss is a sort of lapine Erich von Stroheim named General Woundwort who runs a fascist-state warren. When the mateless hlessil bucks lure comely does from behind Woundwort's Iron Curtain, all bunny-hell breaks loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rabbit Redux | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

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