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Word: dot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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Wells now pump oil right out from underneath Main Street, and dozens more dot the surrounding buttes. Cranes lay down sections of pipe across snow and sagebrush that will carry gas from well to processing plants. Helicopters whir overhead. Hundreds of workers live in trailers and tents in fields, along the river banks, or wherever a friendly rancher will let them camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Life in Oil City, U.S.A. | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...year, the stickwomen played their best against the best but managed to come up just short each time. Against the local opponents that dot the non-league slate they racked up impressive statistics (like outshooting B.C., 28-2) but couldn't play consistently. And when matched against the middling squads that round out the schedule, the team played average, up-and-down games--with like results...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Ups and Downs | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...percent of those crossing Delaware Memorial are commuters. Some are bound for the plants that dot both sides of the river. Some are Jersey shoppers bound for Delaware, where these is no sales tax. Some faces, like those of the truckers who regularly haul furniture up the coast from the Carolinas or run Eastern Shore chickens to New York, tend to become familiar to the toll collectors. Supervisor Ronald Cantino, 34, kept seeing a Jersey girl who commuted to school near Wilmington. First he asked for her phone number, then for a date. Finally he married her. Now they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Delaware: Traffic Takes Its Toll | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...administrator stared. He then turned to an aide and asked, "can we recheck the color of that dot...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Woops | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...Chuck Dot as Connersville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1980 | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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