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Word: woodwork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campus-wide consciousness raising poster campaign could bring the lactose intolerants out of the woodwork. With mass backing, we could shake the ivy off the walls of the University...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Liberty, Equality, Ice Cream | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...first day, the Witches carried theirboxes and bags, a steamer trunk, a refrigerator,three stereos and a computer up five flights ofstairs and subsequently collapsed on the barepreviously stained mattresses of their new room.On the second day the Witches swept the floor andwashed the woodwork and windows. On the third day,the Witches registered for classes and orderedyard upon yard of heavy plastic sheeting. On thefourth day, sheeting and twelve bags of premiumsoil was delivered to the Witches by sweating,cursing delivery people whom they tipped heavily.On the fifth day, the Witches moved all of thefurniture out of the living...

Author: By Jenny LYN Bader, | Title: Superstition | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...some candidates come out of the woodwork," said Myers. "There's been a lot of speculation about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Incumbents' Absence Opens Field for 1989 Council Race | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

...Quarter that lives up to its billing. (Arnaud's, Brennan's and Antoine's, with their dreary, badly prepared food, need not apply, and Paul Prudhomme's newer legend, K-Paul's, is a hassle and uneven.) Galatoire's is a turn-of-the- century set piece with white woodwork, beveled mirrors and brass coat hooks. Waiters are crisply professional; they even chop ice from huge blocks so drinks stay cold and undiluted. The overwhelming attraction is the lush Creole seafood: shrimp remoulade with its brassy mustard and paprika-zapped sauce; plump oysters Rockefeller; trout meuniere amandine, fragrant with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans Beyond Gumbo and Beans | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...worker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says that just in the last three months "people who support the union, have all started coming out of the woodwork...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Union Organizing Efforts | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

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