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Word: jugs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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GUNMAN FIRED TWO MORE SHOTS FROM A HOMEMADE PISTOL, SECURITY FORCES awoke to the threat. They grabbed a green-clad man who, from the evidence of a tube of toothpaste and a water jug found nearby, had spent the night hiding in the gardens. The Prime Minister and his wife were rushed into a car and driven to safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes Oct 13 1986 | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...least the accompanying photographs are entertaining. An 1871 posed photograph of the Natural History Society in suits, bowties and hats captures two mischievous members stuffing a small alligator into a jug. Perhaps a shot in a future commemorative volume will show members of the Bibliophiles Club doing the same with this ill-constructed volume...

Author: By Esther Morgo, | Title: A Super-Deluxe Brochure | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

...Spitting Image puppets have become so popular that thieves are taking out after them. First a $2,250 crumple-faced model of Thatcher disappeared, and then a jug-eared Prince Charles dummy. Both robberies, however, seemed only to vindicate the program's anarchic assumption: for citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Stringing Along | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...baseball team in their odd, unmatched uniforms, and the three football players bumbling a play, reach back to days when Ivy sports were less professional. An 1871 posed photograph of the Natural History Society in suits, bowties, and hats captures two mischievous members stuffing a small alligator into a jug. Only in these pictures might a nostalgic Harvard alum finally recover a piece...

Author: By Esther Morgo, | Title: Our Perfect Past? | 4/17/1986 | See Source »

...book if the two remained proprietors of the Hat Creek Cattle Co. & Livery Emporium ("GOATS AND DONKEY'S NEITHER BOUGHT NOR SOLD/WE DON'T RENT PIGS"). It isn't that life in town can't be dangerous. One can always fall off a porch, get snakebit picking up a jug or risk Tex-Mex cooking. The recipe for varmint stew: "Whatever the dogs catch. Or the dogs themselves, if they don't manage to catch nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It's a Long, Long Tale Awinding Lonesome Dove | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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