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Word: knobs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your feet. In "the long slant of light that means good walking," she points out the sights: the creek, 17 ft. wide; a favorite Osage orange tree; a sycamore log bridge; a tiny grassy island; a quarry; woods leading up to the Blue Ridge Mountains: Brushy, McAfee's Knob, Dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terror and Celebration | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...conversation is still vivid in my mind today: He was polite, relaxed, attentive and unhostile. He nodded, reflected, took off his spectacles, put hand to chin and studied me a while, knocked out his pipe-ash on the round cork knob within the center of a pewter bowl, looked out the window with a weary sense of aging decency, pressed thumb and finger to his brow in old and practiced sense of sorrowful exhaustion. He said to me this: "Of course it's so of course it's not correct. It isn't right for some of us here...

Author: By Jonathan Kozol, | Title: Harvard's Role In Perpetuation Of Class-Exploitation | 10/31/1973 | See Source »

...could make more use of an adjacent note. Another result of his research, he maintains, is confirmation that the recurrent inflammations of the hand and arm suffered by musicians are the result of overtaxing their native skills-a musical variation on tennis elbow, football knee and surfer's knob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ten-Finger Exercise | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

...Bolt. Sewing machines now do practically everything but press the finished garment. Dial a knob or change a foot and your machine can sew on buttons or make flawless buttonholes. Machines can also darn socks, embroider blouses and monogram pockets as well as baste, hem and stitch once "impossible" materials like leather and stretchable knits. In addition to all this, Singer's expensive Touch & Sew model ($439.95) has solid-state speed control enabling it to breeze through varying thicknesses of fabric without being reset. Today, however, many inexpensive machines (about $60) offer zigzag, hemming and stretch stitches plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Time to Sew | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...years old now," the moonshiner said as he scratched a hound's ear. "Lived on this knob all my life." His mother still lives there too, but his father died a heroic moonshiner's death in 1951. "My daddy made his own likker," he explained, "and died at 64 on a big drunk. Stayed drunk for 13 days on his own bottles; stuff was so strong must've burned his insides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Making Moonshine in Kentucky | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

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