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Word: plasticizers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heat from cold bodies. They were defenseless, and worse, they were succumbing. I didn't think I could cross the stream alone even though it looked as though Adrian had. I wondered if I shouldn't set up the tent, get in the sleeping bag and bite through the plastic bag at my belt to get crackers and chocolate and try to save the two men along with myself. But how could I? I still couldn't use my fingers. And if we did manage to last, who would find...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Hell and High Water | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...Plastic Bombeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1978 | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...bestseller, and I can tell you I am no canned laugher [Oct. 30]. Carol Burnett's character was far easier to identify with than some cutesie bleached blond whose only problem in life is deciding on how little she wants to wear. And Frank Rich calls Bombeck plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1978 | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...Adams House, where 15 of the 16 student kitchen workers live in other Houses, students ate with plastic silverware and dishes yesterday "so we could eliminate the task of washing dishes," Willmon J. Jacobs, production food supervisor for Adams House, said yesterday. Three Adams House students who normally work at other Houses are substituting for the part-time workers...

Author: By Susan D. Chira and Jeffrey R. Toobin, S | Title: University Relaxes Ban on Interhouse | 11/14/1978 | See Source »

...family--not for his stepmother about to marry the low-rent local politician Curtis Peavey, whose goons keep rearranging his caps--but to join his sweetheart Catherine, a woman he may or may not be married to. Stay away, she warns: "You called me deep-dish Southern plastic in a national publication!" She is a lesbian now, she maintains, having taken up with the bisexual Marcelline. Chet considers this only vaguely through a menthol cocaine haze. Then he nails his hand to her door...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Caribbean Syndicalist Novel | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

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