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Word: tub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same officials have recently alluded to revolutionary techniques due to be unveiled next year that would virtually guarantee success in future sub hunts. One admiral likened the new strategy to "pulling the plug in the bath tub--only bigger." He declined to elaborate...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Fish Story | 10/21/1982 | See Source »

Meanwhile, let's take a hot tub. Pass that joint...

Author: By Michael S. Terris, | Title: The Pete and Jerry Show | 10/13/1982 | See Source »

...issue that both parties joined enthusiastically last week. President Ronald Reagan, in a televised news conference and a partisan tub-thumping blast in Virginia, at which high school bands blared and pom-pom girls paraded, sought to seize the high ground. The slump, Reagan declared, was the result of generations of misguided Democratic tax-and-spend politics. His Administration, he claimed, has already reduced inflation rates sharply and interest rates somewhat, and eventually will bring down joblessness too-if only the voters elect a friendly Congress that gives its policies time to work. The electorate, said Reagan, should "cut through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Aim at Reagan | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...streets of its rich residential heart, Back Bay and Beacon Hill, are shady and civilized, block after block of stately 19th century town houses. The symphony and principal museum are among the world's best. Fine colleges help make the city an enormous intellectual hot tub, at once invigorating and smug. Now Boston's boosters can brag about more than old-shoe gentility: over the past decade a decrepit waterfront district has been intelligently transformed into a swank commercial and residential quarter whose centerpiece, the Faneuil Hall-Quincy Market showplace, draws natives and tourists by the millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Cities | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...company has since introduced the Infinity Bath, a kidney-shaped tub for two (price: $2,000), and the Super Spa, a giant whirlpool ($4,000) that can come with a built-in table for those who, for example, want to play poker as they soak. Kohler's masterpiece is the $12,500 Environment, a pleasure chamber that pampers bathers with "tropic rain, jungle steam, chinook winds and Baja sun," all accompanied by soothing stereo music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rub-a-Dub-Dub | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

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