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Word: beeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plane then departed for Czechoslovakia, taking the place of a scheduled Pakistan International Airlines commercial flight that was aborted at the last minute by prearrangement. The 707's radar transponder was altered to beep out the code of a commercial airliner, which enabled the plane to overfly several countries without arousing suspicion. "From Czechoslovakia the 707 flew to the U.S.," said the informant, insisting that none of the black-unit workers had any knowledge of what was in the heavy wooden crates. "It could have been gold. It could have been drugs. It could have been guns. We dealt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: B.C.C.I.: The Dirtiest Bank of All | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

SUDDENLY there is a loud beep...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: My HUN-ny Pie | 9/19/1990 | See Source »

...experiment, participants wore an apparatus that placed the mouth of a tube close to one eye. They heard a beep lasting for a half-second, during which the tube blew a puff of oxygen into the eye, making them blink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eye Test May Help Diagnose Alzheimer's | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

...never beat. No matter how many star players you sign, no matter how many times you go to church, no matter how many Acme products you purchase. There will always be that one waiting, certain to make you feel stupid, to make you fall off the cliff. Beep-beep...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Knicks-Celtics: One More Time, Stu | 4/25/1990 | See Source »

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