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Word: 52s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...math teacher in the Boston public schools during the first year of desegregation, a Washington defense analyst on B-52s and cruise missiles, a technical consultant for power and desalination plants in Saudi Arabia, and a writer for Michael Dukakis’ presidential campaign...

Author: By Christen B. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bringing the High Seas Home | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...country's artistic heritage during wartime. "The Americans said they were going to bomb Vietnam back to the Stone Age, to wipe out Vietnamese culture," says Nguyen Do Bao, chairman of the Hanoi Fine Arts Association, who was a young museum staffer in 1966 when the first B-52s appeared overhead. "It was a national imperative to keep the museum open." So the staff - and in some cases, the artists themselves - started to make copies. The reproductions stayed in Hanoi while the originals were spirited away and hidden in caves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copied Paintings Plague Vietnam's Museum | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...tasting much or taking meaningful notes. As the rising steam opened wide our pores and nostrils to the scents of soy and sesame, I instead wrote notes to my fellow diners in the condensation on the windows behind us. The restaurant desperately needs some form of soundtrack (the B-52s, anyone?) beyond the sound of bubbles and diner laughter. Definitely wash the shabu down with one of the bar’s stellar plum, raspberry, or lychee saketinis which, trust me when I say, will prove a real lifesaver as your steam bath progresses. The other menu items are fairly...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding the Shabu For You | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...learned in Vietnam that Ho Chi Minh's "hearts and minds" approach could withstand burning showers of napalm and carpet-bombing from B-52s. The poison of Islamic fundamentalism will survive any aggression we mount against it. Roots don't submit to violence. (Chop up a crabgrass root, and it breeds a dozen new offspring.) You have to patiently dig and dig, and never give up until the job's done. (See pictures of Saudi Arabia's Jihad Rehab Camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Prevent Another Mumbai | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...enlists B.B. KING, FLAMING LIPS, B-52S to rerecord chime theme. Dumb, dumb, dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

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