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Word: litterers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Near Chicago, 850 Glenview, Ill., schoolchildren spent the day planting trees to beautify the town; 200 miles to the southwest, residents of the Springfield area were completing a weeklong "trash-a-thon," aimed at cleaning up the litter along some 90 miles of local roads. Traffic was banned on part of Main Street in Ann Arbor, Mich., where 5,000 Earth Day strollers examined solar water heaters and other exhibits. In Atlanta 300 people devoured a giant 180-lb. Earth Day birthday cake-made, naturally, with no artificial ingredients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Ten Candles for Earth Day | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

Members of the fraternity said the students tortured and killed the cat because it had failed to use its litter...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Students Sentenced for Cat Killing | 3/21/1980 | See Source »

...would have scared the average downhiller into the snowshoe competition. It was almost straight down, the distance, precisely, from hurrah to blah. The time of the drop was nearly instantaneous. One moment Lake Placid was the most tumultuous news spot on earth, the next it was an amiable litter of vacancy signs. One moment it was the riveting center of the media's eldritch universe; the next it was just another out-of-the-way resort more or less waiting for next summer's convention of volunteer firemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Downhill Plunge, All the Way | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...eight corpses litter the stage. Hans Tobeason's flaming lights are freed at last from the black drapes of deception, blinding the audience further. Edgar, Kent and Albany blink unbelievingly at the holocaust at their feet. We wait for a blackout and a curtain...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...full of strident and hackneyed themes, but nonetheless ominous. Candidates speak glibly of the nation's military needs, haggle in public advertisements over who would hand the Pentagon the most money, and discuss "limited nuclear war" as casually as the latest poll. Proposals to lower unemployment or slow inflation litter the floors of New Hampshire auditoriums, mowed down by exorbitantly priced arsenals of MX missiles, B-1 bombers and "rapid deployment forces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roaring Silence | 2/26/1980 | See Source »

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