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Word: marsh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climbing into a cockpit, puffing on a cigar, when his flier reminded him that when they became airborne the cigar would be extremely dangerous. He scrambled down, flung the butt on the airstrip, and stamped on it. One evening in France he and [his secretary] Eddie Marsh were driving to his chateau in a Rolls-Royce. It was a trying journey, as Marsh described it in his diary: 'First a tyre burst with one of those loud bursts which make one think one has been assassinated-and then ... Winston gave a wrong direction, left instead of right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Excerpt | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...runoff. Damages to property and roadway, now estimated at $20 million to $30 million, could go as high as $264 million this year. Salt water has begun to eat away at the dikes protecting the nine wildlife refuges that rim the lake; about 4,000 acres of fresh-water marsh, home to some 7 million waterfowl and countless shore birds, have been destroyed by the briny advance. Utah officials are considering several solutions, including dams to catch spring snow runoff and an enlargement of the culverts through the railway causeway that slices the lake in half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storms Too Hard to Weather | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...meeting the stars of Sesame Street before their live show at Nassau Coliseum. Born retarded, he had lived in a residential treatment center since he was six, following the death of both parents. Until he shone on Thursday's Child, a weekly news feature conducted by Anchorwoman Michele Marsh on New York's WCBS-TV, he seemed destined to stay there. But five months after his appearance, he had been taken in by an adoptive family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Searching for a Forever Home | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...James Kelly. Reported by Marsh Clark/Harare

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe: The Plague of Tribal Enmity | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...store that does." I still regard the oversight as a slight to the Jews in the Harvard community, and I still find it irrelevant as to whether other stores have Hanukkah paper. Nonetheless I did some checking and found out that Filene's uses blue paper and Jordan Marsh uses gold. In answer to my question. "Do you have Hanukkah paper?" both stores replied "yes" as opposed to The Coop, which replied "no." I think the answers reflect an attitude. I do not think that red and white paper with The Coop written all over it (your "neutral" paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hanukkah, Coop | 1/6/1983 | See Source »

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