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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community's 173 houses, "a slightly higher incidence of cat owning than in Britain as a whole." Owners of 77 of the cats agreed to cooperate. Each was given a supply of consecutively numbered polyethylene bags labeled with his cat's code letter and asked to store whatever was left of any prey his pet brought home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Attack of The Killer Cats | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...powered by fluid pumped by pressure from the jet engines through a series of stainless-steel tubes that snake throughout the aircraft. Since each of the plane's three redundant hydraulic systems is powered by a separate engine, the loss of power from the No. 2 engine should have left two of them intact. No complete failure had ever been reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brace! Brace! Brace! | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...voice on the intercom shouted, "Brace! Brace! Brace!" Four minutes later, some ten seconds short of the runway, the DC-10's right wing dipped, slicing into the dirt to the left of the asphalt. The plane plowed into the ground and flipped over twice before finally landing on its back. In a cloud of dirt, smoke and flying metal, the plane broke into ever smaller pieces as parts of its fuselage hurtled across the runway and into a cornfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brace! Brace! Brace! | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...will replace former director Elisabeth McKinsey, who left this year to become the dean of Carelton College...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: New Director Named For Bunting Institute | 7/28/1989 | See Source »

...beach. No closed doors at the nation's oldest university. A memory of the summer's first real heat wave is all that's left...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Summer at Harvard, and the Heat is On | 7/28/1989 | See Source »

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