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Word: vacuums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politics abhors a vacuum, and last week there were signs that two of the brightest, and youngest, lights in Southern politics were poised to enter the race: Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, 39, and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, 40. Gore acknowledges that he has "agreed to actively consider the possibility of running." Money does not appear to be an obstacle: after meeting with Gore in Washington on Friday, a dozen top Democratic fund raisers anointed him as their candidate if he enters the race by next week. "If Albert Gore runs," promises Developer Nathan Landow, "he will be a well- financed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whistling Dixie: Clinton and Gore to the fore | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...around the Bergenfield area with two companions, Thomas Olton, 18, and Thomas Rizzo, 19. At about 3 a.m., the teenagers stopped at an Amoco station and bought $3 worth of gas for Olton's brown Camaro. They asked if they could take the hose from the station's automobile vacuum cleaner, but the attendant refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teen Suicide: Two death pacts shake the country | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...special public service, a few soundtracks specially geared to the Harvard lifestyle. These songs are the product of those early Dorm Crew mornings when, bored with bashing my howling vacuum cleaner into your hallway doors, I begin to long desparately to be someone else...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Musical Madness | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

...supply of these ditties is endless. For any masochists yearning for repeat performances, show up at Mather's low rise at 7:30 any morning. I'll be maliciously singing over the grinding howl of my trusty battering-ram vacuum cleaner--rise and shine, folks, it's a musical world out there...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Musical Madness | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

...floors and walls of the lobby were stained with blood, and gaping holes made by rockets scarred its walls. By the time the last guests and employees had fled -- none, miraculously, were hurt -- looters were already at work stripping the building of everything from television sets to vacuum cleaners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Bloody Battle for West Beirut | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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