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Word: shrub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stately, romantic brick buildings, with their web of walkways, courts, terraces, stairs and walls, all highlighted with sculptures and other objects by the outstanding artists Saarinen attracted to Cranbrook, probably represent this century's most successful integration of architecture, landscape design and works of art. Every brick, shrub, fountain, gate and ornament contributes to the delight of the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Our Bauhaus | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...ardent devotee of the virtues of mesquite [March 1]. The aroma given off by this burning shrub is a little scent of heaven. If you have never had a steak char-broiled over an open mesquite fire, you haven't lived. And if you have never had soup made from the bones of that broiled steak, you really haven't lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To The Editors | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...express bus to corporate success. For instance, there's the character called Will Street: brawny, good hearted, always ready with a joke. Law school teaches him to see very country meadow as a shopping mail and each grassy hillside as a self-sufficient condominium community. Or take Eustace Shrub, who always wanted to be the star of a TV exercise show, but somehow ends up in cahoots with evil Professor Otto Savage, the student-hating arch-villain of this silly tale...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Jurisimprudence | 3/4/1982 | See Source »

Mesquite is a brush, a shrub, a tree, an infestation and a tremendous thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Texas: The Great Mesquite Wars | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...never met a cat I didn't hate. It's not just that I dislike the moon-wailing, shrub-fouling, people-using critters. What gets me is they don't have to be licensed, while my house-confined mutt does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 28, 1981 | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

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