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Word: trashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hundreds of bonfires fueled by cardboard, trash or debris provided the only heat for people who had spent the last four nights on the streets, and sent a pall of smoke over the city of 250,000 people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Transport Plane Crash Kills 78 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

There are other ways to deal. My roommate reacted to the shock by swallowing a goodly portion of Absolut, which was a mistake from his point of view (which was mostly upside-down, over a vomit-filled trash can), but gave me the opportunity to hear the uninhibited ramblings of a highly intelligent, avidly political Slavic major who was shocked to his soul by the victory of two men like George Bush and Dan Quayle...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Post-Election Escapism | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...that will connect the rooftop park and Riverside Drive. The foreman says, "The state thinks it's building a park up there? They're crazy. Go have a look." A left turn leads to the dock, where garbage barges are piled high each day and sent off to the trash heap of history. Take a right and slip into the big box itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City Coney Island On the Hudson | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...used to think no one read this advertisement-laden publication. If you pick one up--and how often do you simply skip by the person who is handing them out, hands dug deeply in pockets?--you simply toss it in the nearest trash...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Ten Questions of the Universe | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

More than 2,000 miles from the mouth of the Rio Grande, a marble obelisk with the number 258 marks the Pacific boundary of the frontier. On the U.S. side of the wire-mesh fence, this one corroded by the sea air, sanitation workers are emptying trash cans set about the neatly cut lawns of a small park. On the Mexican side of the fence an eroded gully is filled with garbage. What was once the Playa Azul restaurant is drunkenly toppling sideways, its concrete supports undermined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey Along the U.S.-Mexico Border | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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