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Word: plastics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applied the last bit of waxy stick to my lips, but it was scraped off by the bottom of the empty tube. I stood dumbfounded, for I had even seen the little plastic piece that pushes the balm up the cylinder. I had always lost the tube before it got anywhere near empty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dry Lip Delirium | 1/30/1987 | See Source »

...began filming, without a break, and continued for nine straight weeks. "They looked mean," Stone says, "and they stayed that way." Roaming the sets, Dye ensured the authenticity of every detail, from Barnes' wicked dagger ("Worn upside-down for quicker killing," Dye explains) to the proper use of white plastic C-ration spoons. No one said "Over and out" on the field radio, and no one wore camouflage fatigues, which came into use after the period depicted by the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: How the War Was Won | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

Last Tuesday, after a week of fine-tuning rudder, rigging and sails and applying strips of plastic film to the hull, Conner came out smoking and caught the Kiwis by surprise. Stars & Stripes crossed the starting line three seconds ahead of New Zealand and never relinquished the lead. On the 24.1-mile course's four windward legs, Conner refused to be drawn into Dickson's practiced tacking maneuvers, in which the lead boat covers the one behind, trying to prevent it from escaping the blockage of its breeze. In a blustery 26-knot wind, Stars & Stripes did not risk losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dragster in The Danger Zone | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...second suspected terrorist to be arrested in Europe last week. In Italy, police at Milan airport seized another Lebanese man, Bachir Khodr, 26, who arrived from Beirut. Inspection of picture frames and chocolate Easter eggs in Khodr's luggage found them to be filled with 24 lbs. of plastic explosives. A portable radio that he carried contained 36 detonators. Authorities in Italy believe Khodr may be a member of a pro-Iranian terrorist group called Hizballah and could possibly have ties to Hamadei. Italian Interior Minister Oscar Scalfaro asserted that the "arrest in Frankfurt is linked with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Wanted for Murder and Air Piracy | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...separate apartments, the abode has a pool that overlooks the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral. What will the host wear to his soiree? At Marbella there is a small warehouse, called the Central European Distribution Center, for Khashoggi's clothes. More than 1,000 handmade suits, encased in plastic and ranging from size 46 to 56 to accommodate Khashoggi's shifting figure, line the walls, sorted by color. The clothes are shipped to each of his homes so that he will have a full wardrobe of Arab and Western wear wherever he happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Businessman Adnan Khashoggi's High-Flying Realm | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

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