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Word: racks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...useful, the reflexes of antiterrorism must be instantaneous. And though they have saved several of Scott's graduates from trouble, on occasion they can be dangerous. A corporate chauffeur confronted by a man pushing a rack of clothes across a downtown street in Pittsburgh was suspicious enough to gun the car onto the sidewalk, smashing several parking meters in an escape attempt. It was not an attack. Luckily no pedestrians were injured. Though trying to drive around a roadblock is the worst thing to do - it exposes you to broadside fire - the chauffeur's startled boss gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Virginia: Drive for Life | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...Mart of the skies. Midway takes the plain pipe rack approach to flights between Chicago and Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City, St. Louis and Washington. Founder and Chairman Irving Tague, 52, the former head of San Francisco-based Hughes AirWest, got the line aloft by leasing three ten-year-old DC-9 jets from TWA and daubing them with rainbow colors. Uniforms for flight attendants came off the peg rather than being designer-made. No meals are served aloft, yet drinks are a bargain at $1 each. Midway's nonunionized ticket agents cheerfully help load bags or straighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aerial Dogfight | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...days. The crusade's headquarters in the El Bohio Café on Bergenline Avenue is jammed with refugees, who get $50 and all the food and clothes they need. Volunteers take pledges over the phone for jobs, supplies and lodging. One merchant sends over a rack of new clothing, another offers jobs. "The reaction has been overwhelming," says Rodriguez. "We are taking care of these refugees. The Federal Government is not involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Happy to Wash Dishes | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

Dazzling footwork coupled with outstanding standing stickwork gives Predun a basis on which to out-finesse his opponents. Not a particularly hard shooter, he relies instead on shot placement to rack up the goals...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Peter Predun | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

...split, but like everything else all year, this team did it the hard way. Not content to rack the Cadets' inferior pitchers in the first game and then submit meekly to all-league twirler Craig Jones in the nightcap, the Crimson kept the good-sized Soldiers Field crowd around until the end, finally doing away with Jones using that rarest of of weapons in the Harvard arsenal, the longball...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Crimson Splits and Gains Title Share | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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