Word: biding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes it flies, sometimes it crawls, but it always passes inexorably. We mark it, save it, waste it, bide it, race against it. We measure it incessantly, with a passion for precision that borders on the obsessive. Time is so vitally enmeshed with the fabric of our existence, in fact, that it's hard even to conceive of it as an independent entity--and when we try, the result is less than enlightening. Pondering the mystery of what time really is, St. Augustine wrote in his Confessions, "If no one asks me, I know; but if any person should require...
...someone to sign up on your plan, you get rebates off your bills. He likens it to the spread of a virulent disease. But there are enough cell phone owners for the moment and many more eager perspectives to participate in the frenzy. I'm going to bide my time. And concentrate on learning how to check my messages from outside my room...
...Crimson would bide its time, however, until there was only 47 seconds left in the half...
...after endless months of campaigning, the 1996 election has drawn to a close. For those of you are feeling withdrawal from a lack of discussion of bridges, villages and "whatever"--never fear. Disappointed with Tuesday's results? Bide your time. Voters of New Hampshire: lock your doors! After all, its only 1,461 days until the presidential election...
...after endless months of campaigning, the 1996 election has drawn to a close. For those of you are feeling withdrawal from a lack of discussion of bridges, villages, and "whatever"--never fear. Disappointed with Tuesday's results? Bide your time. Voters of New Hampshire: lock your doors! Citizens of lowa: batten the hatches! After all, its only 1,461 days until the next Presidential election...