Search Details

Word: strewn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Mart's plain, red brick offices in Bentonville soon get an insight into how Walton manages to offer such low prices. The company's frugal quarters are outfitted like a bus station, complete with plastic seats. The chairman's office, covered in bargain-basement paneling, is appointed mostly with strewn-about books and computer printouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make That Sale, Mr. Sam Wal-Mart's | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

People who throw senior bars do not have to worry about property damage. So far this year, no room has suffered any effects of a senior bar other than a floor sticky with beer and plastic cups strewn all over the place...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Senior Bar Hopping | 5/1/1987 | See Source »

...garrison a few hours after the raid, General Adolfo Blandon, the Salvadoran army commander, was confronted with scenes of carnage and destruction. Wisps of smoke still curled from charred buildings as soldiers gathered bodies and parts of bodies into plastic bags. Discarded uniforms and blood-stained bandages were strewn about a building that had been a barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador Bloody Setback | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...find wheat, oat berry, cracked wheat and more. It's the same with chips." Though they profess an interest in foods that are low in salt and calories, Americans last year spent an estimated $3.3 billion dollars (an increase of 75% since 1980) on deep- fried chips, generally strewn with salt. The market is dominated by Pepsico's Frito-Lay, Borden's Wise and Procter & Gamble's Pringle's, but around the country the real aficionados prize the local brands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: One Potato, Two Potato . . . | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Dianne adjusts Bridey's costume, and then she and Bridey and Veva go under the trestle and climb a steep incline that is strewn with boulders. The footing is slippery; they go cautiously and emerge on a concrete platform that is five feet from the railroad tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: Visions Along the Amtrak Line | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next