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Word: ploughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once upon a time we couldn't clean our streets," explains Vellucci. "In the wintertime we couldn't plough them, and in the summer-time, during the good weather, we couldn't sweep them. And the reason is that a lot of the students would leave their automobiles parked and then go home, like, to New York and California, on furlough...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Ping-Pong, Popsicles and Politics | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Plough and Stars (Mass. Ave. toward Central Square). Dark and crowded. Live music occasionally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Next Week's Agenda | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

...campaign may be having an impact. After placing ads in the magazine since its inception, Noxell (Cover Girl Cosmetics) and Schering-Plough (Maybelline) have suspended advertising. The companies, though, insist that they are not responding to pressure from the Moral Majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOYCOTTS: Trying to Silence Sassy | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Mamet added to the production's mystique by declining all requests for interviews and refusing to explain the play's odd title. It appears to derive from a blessing in medieval verse and song, "God speed your plough." According to Silver, it means approximately, "Do your work, and God will help you." Director Gregory Mosher, who has staged twelve of Mamet's plays and is one of his closest friends, suggests instead that the phrase "has to do with turning fresh earth -- and of course there is a sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Madonna Comes to Broadway | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...scenery you're after, then head over to the Boathouse Bar (56 JFK St.), which features preps, Business Schoolers and lots of crew paraphernalia. A long walk up Mass. Ave. will take you to the Plough and Stars and Jack's (952 Mass. Ave.) These two rarely see a Harvard student, but you might want to try them for a change of pace...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: This Guide's for You | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

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