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Word: strew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coming from small-town Wisconsin, I have long lived on the assumption that I can strew cash about my room, prop the door open and still sleep soundly, knowing I am safe. In fact, that is exactly what my brother used to do back home. And let me tell you, it was great. Whenever I needed some extra change, I could just go borrow some from his carpet. (Of course, I always paid the carpet back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...exotic investments strew wreckage across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

...Surat roughly one half of the 12.5 million population lives in shantytowns outside city sanitation control. In addition, a ten foot monsoon flood in August strew sewage everywhere...

Author: By Zoe Argento, | Title: Rebirth of the PLAGUE | 10/4/1994 | See Source »

...home again. Symptoms of the disease are truly terrible: a bloviation of the prose, with cliches clanging at irregular intervals; a golly-gee nostalgia for the glitz of Manhattan when one was , young, yearning and oh-so-talented; and, for a few, an incurable lust to strew names like sunflower seeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Willie Boy Was Here | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

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