Word: plywood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his excellency might give them pause. These days, when the bishop brings home a guest, he tends to grin and confess, "Lost the front door key. We'll have to go round the back." Then he leads the way to an entrance that has been patched with plywood since thieves broke in to steal last spring. They only got $1, the bishop happily reports, and were lucky at that. Normally there is nothing of value in the house. The $1 had been put aside to buy seeds for the large, ragged vegetable garden that provides most...
These liabilities have helped set the stage for an unexpectedly strong showing by Anderson's opponent, Rudy Boschwitz, 47, a lanky Republican who is the millionaire founder of Plywood Minnesota, a chain of home-improvement franchises. Boschwitz is making his first bid for public office but has been widely known to Minnesotans for years because of his firm's zany advertising campaigns. They included such one-liners as KEEP BULLFIGHTING OUT OF MINNESOTA and UNITE THE TWIN CITIES-FILL IN THE MISSISSIPPI...
...This dance floor is going to be a real kicker!" He puffs reflectively on a corncob pipe. The moveable floor, he explains, is raised on pine two-by-fours set in an octagonal shape. The surface--1/4 in. plexiglas inlaid in 3/4 in. plywood--will have multi-colored lightbulbs forming the letter "N" underneath it to stand for "N" entryway, of course. Kasper plans to control the floor set-up with, as he puts it, "a very advanced light control system...
...master rich. Liability insurance costs $150 a day. Skora has had to let his hypnotherapy practice dwindle to two or three patients a week. Lugging a 275 lb. tin man around the country is hard work; Arok must be carefully packed in his custom-built, veneered sarcophagus with the plywood bas-relief of him on the lid. And once on the job site, things go bump in the day. Like the time on a Chicago talk show when Arok impolitely dumped a glass of water into the laps of fellow Guests Bill Bixby, John Travolta and Barbara Eden...
...pongmen pound their hollow white shells on homemade plywood tables in the basement of Richards Hall, a graduate dormitory where the dust is so thick that "any visitor with asthma would choke," team captain Nick Christakos said recently...