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Word: stools (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took the stool next to him at the counter and greeted...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Notes from the Underground | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...worker glared at him. Behind the counter the waitress asked the driver how he wanted his steak. "Christ, any way," he said, and wheeled his stool to show his back to both...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Notes from the Underground | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...heard. There are five people still working at midnight, three of them are undergrads. A student sits at the center table screwing up his face and dragging his hand through his hair repeatedly while figuring out a problem in his notebook. A woman jiggles her foot, causing her stool to squeak in rhythm...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: TERMINAL ILLNESS | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

HARRIS. The self-styled champion of the common folk managed a brave quip: "Our problem is that the little people weren't able to reach the levers on the voting machines. We need a stool in every voting place." But Harris, shaken by his poor finish, was more candid than most: "We did not do as well as we thought we would." Indeed, only his diehard determination and penny-pinching campaigning can keep him in the contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: On to the Showdown in Florida | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Monk begins her solo huddled on a stool--an old, old woman in white leggings and frock. Traveling down a long white cloth, she journeys backwards in time. Her gestures compact layer upon layer of implied meaning. Wide-armed swaying conjures up the image of a little girl dancing to the hypnotic rhythms of her favorite ditty, but suggests too an ancient woman casting nets, sowing grain, soothing a child...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Dream Journeying | 2/18/1976 | See Source »

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