Word: lugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students wishing to save a few bucks will no longer have to lug their bags from the Red Line to the Green Line to the Blue Line for the airport stop...
...blockade has proved anything but airtight. An estimated 10,000 Haitians cross the Dominican border each day to buy fuel, which they lug back in plastic jugs or pulley across ravines. At the Malpasse border crossing east of the capital, wooden fishing boats openly ply barrels of illegal gasoline and diesel from an open-air depot on the Dominican side of the island...
...caught because they stop paying attention to detail." Holmes recalls Bundy's words: "You learn what you need to know to kill and take care of the details, like changing a tire. The first time you're careful; the 30th time you can't remember where you put the lug wrench...
...group I have found useful is comp.sys.laptops, where laptop computer users get together to share the joys and woes of owning lug-around systems. Many also look here for insider tips on purchasing or maintaining laptops...
Some people never recover from reading Tom Wolfe. Not the white-suited dandy who lit a bonfire under the vanities, but the big lug from Asheville, North Carolina, who said you can't go home again. Symptoms of the disease are truly terrible: a bloviation of the prose, with cliches clanging at irregular intervals; a golly-gee nostalgia for the glitz of Manhattan when one was , young, yearning and oh-so-talented; and, for a few, an incurable lust to strew names like sunflower seeds...