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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of a Smith and Wesson, Caring packs a cassette player and V.C.R in his back, a television monitor in his chest, and a red and blue rotating light in his head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robot Joins Cambridge Police Force | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

When MIT comes up, it is usually because of the so-called Simplex project, a proposed 27-acre project on university-owned land that would include apartments, a luxury hotel, office and light industrial space. City activists say it will destroy the nearby neighborhood by pushing up property values and increasing traffic problems...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Why City Candidates Battle Over Buildings | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...CHILD IN TIME, Ian McEwan -- FIRST LIGHT, Charles Baxter -- LEAVING HOME, Garrison Keillor -- OUTLAWS, George V. Higgins -- A SOUTHERN FAMILY, Gail Godwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Nov. 2, 1987 | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...from around the hole once the drilling got under way. To see inside the vault, technicians modified a miniature remote-controlled video camera so it could be inserted into the 3 1/2-in.-wide entrance hole. The camera, originally designed to probe the interior of nuclear reactors, provided fiber- optic light without introducing any heat into the chamber. Over the site was a makeshift scaffold and the flags of Egypt and the National Geographic Society, the principal sponsor of the $250,000 project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Probing The Chambers of Cheops | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...pages of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee. Because it's not every novel that has its young heroine dressed like a ham for a Halloween pageant, because Lee creates the archetypical American neighborhood and has the good grace to let you explore it, kid-like, by the light of midnight streetlamps, and because Boo Radley, with his taste for live squirrels and last-minute heroics, is the embodiment of Halloween itself--a big, lurking Boogie Man, with a heart of gold...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Bedtime Stories | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

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