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Word: lyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time is hell," says Eugene Lye of the reviews. "But everyone is pretty much used to it now. No one here slept last night...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Living the Life of an Architecture Student | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

...Missouri youngster, Boston can be a marbles game in which the shooter need not knuckle down, but to a Pacific Northwest Indian, a Boston was any white American. And in a black ghetto like Watts or Harlem, conk means to straighten a person's hair with a lye solution, reports Cassidy, as well as carrying the more universal connotation of hitting "someone hard, esp on the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blind Tigers and Manniporchia | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...restoration. The Great Hall is a maze of scaffolding. Fans hum everywhere, drying out plaster. Bare bulbs hang down all over. Occasionally there is the frantic sound of beating wings, a gull or a pigeon come in through a smashed window. Here and there is the faintest scent of lye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene: From Ellis Island to Lax | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...while all eight restaurants have made the non-smoking areas available, hardly anyone asks to use them. "Very few [people] actually requests it," said George G. Lye. general manager of The Wursthaus, of his non-smoking section in the back of the Kennedy Street restaurant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoking Ordinance Has Little Effect | 9/27/1984 | See Source »

...result. A 6-oz. can of Del Monte tomato paste has a mere 112 mg of sodium; Hunt's has 610. A Kellogg blueberry waffle has 260 mg, while the same size serving of Aunt Jemima hits 352 mg. Canned fruit is salty when it is peeled with lye. Because peas are sorted in brine for canning, a tablespoonful of canned peas has as much sodium (30.8 mg) as 5½ lbs. of fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salt: A New Villain? | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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