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Word: stringing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pity the poor postalworker, however hard that may be for the millions who have stood in line for half an hour staring at the wanted flyers, only to have a gum-snapping clerk reject their package because it fails to comply with official wrapping regulations ("No string; paper tape only. Next!"). Attracted to their positions by good pay, generous benefits, job security and a predictable, not to say slow, pace, today's postalworkers are being dragged | against their will into the 21st century by the anthem of the Age of Fax: get a move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mailroom Mayhem | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...allowed our second-string people to swim in some of the events," Costin-Scalise said. "If we got in trouble, we could have put our faster swimmers...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Aquawomen Reserves Dominate Yale, 87-53 | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...second-string wrestlers didn't let beginners nerves or inexperience get in their way. They put mind and will together to come out first class...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Injury-Plagued Grapplers Initialize WPI, NYU, UNH | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Hsiao said the Holworthy students decided during a study break to follow last year's custom of hanging the lights. "Everyone gave either a string of lights or a dollar" toward the project, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Steal the Spirit In Holworthy's Holiday | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

Toronto-born, Novak graduated from local York University intending to be a writer ("No kid goes to bed at night dreaming he'll be a ghostwriter"). After earning an M.A. in contemporary Jewish studies at Brandeis, he spent ten years editing scholarly magazines and writing a string of financially unsuccessful books (among them: High Culture, about marijuana use, The Great American Man Shortage and a compendium of Jewish humor). Just as he resigned himself to "finding a real job," an editor friend at Bantam suggested Lee Iacocca. "Great! My kind of guy," said Novak, who had never heard of Iacocca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Celebs' Golden Mouthpiece: William Novak | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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