Word: dense
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Far from being corrupting dens of iniquity, the arcades, Brooks concluded, were places for young people to meet and talk. Said he: "They're like a bunch of golfers talking about what happened at the ninth hole." Fears that drugs and liquor are commonplace were off target, Brooks reported...
Harvey is one of a growing company of enthusiasts who practice personal data basing. In dens, living rooms and small offices across the country, an estimated 1 million data basers are transferring the contents of black books, file cards and shaggy-eared folders into their personal computers, cataloguing everything from...
When the first chill sweeps across the tundra of northern Manitoba each year, the bears, in particular the big males, begin to think about their favorite winter activity, hunting fat seals on the ice floes of Hudson Bay. With unerring instinct, they begin congregating around the bay's southwestern...
As a stand-up comic, which Klein takes great, immodest pride in being, he much prefers the college concert circuit to the big money gambling and entertainment dens. "Where they don't serve drinks or food. With theater seats, facing one direction--college gymnasiums, lecture halls, theaters. With college audiences...
JAZZ FIRST flourished in wide-open towns--New Orleans, Kansas City-- where whorehouses and gambling dens needed "hot music" to keep the customers fired-up and spending. So it's not surprising that jazz musicians have always been obsessed with "paying dues," the tradition of enduring hardships and degrading work...