Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...