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Word: charcoal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rich cattle feed, and nitrogen-fixing bacteria on the roots help to fertilize the soil. Because of its rapid growth, the tree could become a vital source of the firewood still used to cook food by 75% of the world's population. Its wood can be processed into charcoal or a flammable gas-or used for building houses and furniture and making paper pulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Schmoo Tree | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...state forensics laboratory is still examining the evidence found to the left of the building's entrance, which included a can of charcoal lighter fluid, some burned matchbooks and a wine bottle...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Message in a Bottle | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...looks like it was a set fire," University police Captain Jack Morse said yesterday, adding that the police found a can of charcoal lighter fluid on the ground to the left of the building's entrance...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Police Investigate 17 Quincy St. Fire | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...partygoers were Kennedy, five other men and six women. The women were all in their 20s and veterans of Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. After several hours over drinks, snacks and charcoal-broiled steaks, Kennedy and Kopechne, 28, left in his black Oldsmobile sedan. He claimed later that they intended to return to their separate hotels in Edgartown for the night. However, he headed in the opposite direction, toward a deserted beach. He drove down a bumpy dirt road and plunged off narrow, humpbacked Dike Bridge into Poucha Pond. Kennedy managed to extricate himself from the car, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Night That Haunts Him | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

THEIR INNOCENCE was hardly contrived. They knew nothing about folk music, about coffeehouses, about the honest blues. But like all musical scenes, the folk scene had a magnetism, (emanating) perhaps from the "flat pink and charcoal stretch known as the Eisenhower years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Once and Future Folk Scene | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

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