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Word: tars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to wear to his cousin's bar mitzvah. Perhaps it was a heavy tuxedo--or so the ceiling sprinkler head must have thought. After hanging the garment on the aforementioned safety equipment, the entire dorm quickly became flooded with water and some type of fire-retardant tar substance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCREAMING IN THE RAIN | 10/15/1994 | See Source »

Residents said the building smelled like smoke and tar because of the oil that initially sprayed out of Nieman's sprinkler with the water...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis and William G. Nee, S | Title: Hollis Floors Flood, and More Than a Friday Night Is Ruined | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

...billion worth of prevention programs is harder to tar uniformly. "Hope in Youth," which awards $20 million for "multi-issue forums for public policy discussion," is unadulterated pork. On the other hand, the widely derided late-night sports programs ($40 million) are meant to duplicate the inner-city "midnight basketball" games that many cops praise for helping keep idle kids off the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Fix the Crime Bill Now | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...living?" muttered one Angeleno who overheard the author being introduced at a Hollywood screening.) On behalf of the Long Beach public library, he also tutored illiterates, who in turn guided him to some of the area"s more exotic landmarks. On his own, Theroux discovered the La Brea tar pits, the world"s largest mastodon graveyard, which conatins what he calls a "cynical metaphor" for Los Angeles: the skeleton of a woman who died about 9,000 years ago."Her skull was bashed in by a blunt object: this first Angeleno, the wall label tells you, was also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Wide Eyed in La-La Land | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...stealing car parts from an automobile repair shop. Zhirinovsky acted as prosecutor, and even though such pilfering was common, he turned the proceedings into a show trial, delivering a shrill speech about the need to punish the boys. Enraged, his peers waited until after class and beat the tar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Vladimir Zhirinovsky: Rising Czar? | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

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