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Word: rug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strong on children and survival. She is 40 or so and a fierce lover of her layabout poet Leo, a cashiered college professor. She wants to write and also likes to smoke a little dope. In the meantime, she keeps the necessary $50 ahead of perdition (banked under the rug of the one- room roach farm she shares with Leo and her grown son Morgani) by soldiering for an office-temporaries outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleazy Street AFOOT IN A FIELD OF MEN | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...Consorting with the Rolling Stones as they danced along the dark borderline of rock, then announcing famously, "I slept with three, and then I decided the lead singer was the best bet." Getting busted for drugs at Keith Richard's country home in Sussex wearing nothing but a bearskin rug. It was all part of swinging London. But for Marianne Faithfull, it swung like a noose. After the high times of the '60s, the bills came due, and kept coming. Junked out, sleeping in doorways. Long memories and a ravaged future. A lot of history to tell. No last names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Holding Tight, Letting Go | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...looking for a place to sleep when I happened to notice that the lights were on in the home of my close personal friend, Jeffrey J. Wise. Thinking to ask to crash on his rug, I shinnied up the drainpipe, forced the window lock, and climbed into his bedroom. But, alas, he was not there. What I did find, however, was much more intriguing...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Ask Not What You Can Do for the Kennedy School | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

...seemed downright preposterous to Donald O. Cram of Altadena, Calif., when he got a phone call notifying him that he had just won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Reason: Cram is in the rug-shampooing business. The Swedish Academy of Sciences had rung up the wrong man. Quipped UCLA Chemist Donald J. Cram after hearing about the mix-up: "There is some chemistry involved in carpet cleaning." Cram, Pedersen and Lehn, working independently, shared the award for their work in "host-guest" chemistry. "The basis of our work," explains Lehn, "is the way molecules are able to recognize each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inspiration and Originality: superconductors, molecules and gene theory | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...response to the Dean's comments, the co-sponsors of the event--the Harvard Law School Republicans(HLSR)--released a statement last night blastingthe Law School administration for attempting "tosweep their responsibility for the cancellation ofthe program under the rug...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: HLS Ended Speech To Protect Calero | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

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