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Word: stuffers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are indications in this cold season that Americans are beginning to believe that conservation offers the only way to fight back. Newly built homes everywhere are generally more energy efficient than the houses of a decade ago. Some public utilities across the country are offering (along with bill-stuffer assurances that nuclear energy is a good thing) free or low-cost energy audits of ratepayers' houses. The offers are being accepted by the hundreds of thousands. "There are frenzied people out there," says Austin Randolph, who handles such audits in Westchester County, N.Y., for Consolidated Edison. For a nominal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Yesterday was a different story, though the results remained the same. Down by three goals--an ice-length rush by Betsy Field, a backhand stuffer by Nancy Milholland, and a high pop that Nelia Worsely apparently lost in the sun--the Crimson bounced back to play some of its better hockey of the season. Huber finished a two-on-one with Streeter by sweeping a rebound between the pads of Big Green netminder Janice Ellis 11:42 into a Harvard-dominated second period...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icewomen Take Double Defeat in Ivies | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...till their own farms ...the men who went to war ... and saved the nation's honor ... by the natural law of their being find their place in the Republican Party. While the old slave owner and slave driver, the saloon keeper, the ballot box stuffer ...the criminal class of the great cities, the men who cannot read or write, by the natural law of their being find their congenial place in the Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline of the Parties | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Around holiday season, stocking-stuffer items like The Slipper and the Rose usually show up, all covered in glitter and good will. These gaudy little baubles are easy enough to tolerate in the floodtide of fellowship that ebbs and flows around Christmas. Holidays are over, however, a cold wet January is upon the land, and The Slipper and the Rose lingers on, looking as foolish as Cinderella hotfooting it out of the palace as her ball gown turns to rags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Glass Sliver | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...Shorty was quite an operator," a sausage stuffer quips. "I don't see the connection," comes the inevitable reply...

Author: By Alan Ladd, | Title: The A-B-Cs of Fascism | 3/30/1973 | See Source »

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