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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show comes when Andrew Watson and Caroline Bicks play Standish and Emily, a husband and wife who make a magnificent mountain out of a molehill. In a hilarious huff, Standish swears retribution for his brother's tarnished reputation--"Binky Byers made a remark to him in the steam bath...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Food for Thought | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...diploma and left for Kenyon College, eventually wandering far from the gritty industrial town strung along the Ohio River above Wheeling, W. Va., but he never really escaped the place. He couldn't. A hypersensitive youth who just happened to be set down amid swirling olive water and factory steam, Wright had had his poetic subject matter handed to him on a dinner plate. He neither forgot nor forgave the misery that he knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Town and the Bard Who Left It | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Still, the delegates were not complacent. The theme of the annual conference was "Action for the Third Term," and there was much talk of finding ways to keep the Thatcher revolution from running out of steam. The Tories thus endorsed further cuts in taxes, tougher anticrime measures and new curbs on labor unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Renovating The Revolution | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...really doesn't seem that risky for officials to turn on the steam based on the outside temperature. Nor does it seem unreasonable to ask that the University believe students when they claim that their rooms are too cold, especially when the outside temperature...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Out in the Cold | 10/14/1987 | See Source »

...Analysts say its fall colors, weighted heavily toward gray, beige and olive, were too drab for many shoppers. The chain's staples -- roomy buffalo-plaid flannel shirts, ten-button Tees and jeans -- did not offer buyers anything fresh. Even Banana Republic's safari look was running out of steam. Meanwhile, copycat stores seemed to be appearing on every corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falling into The Gap | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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