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Word: bikinied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the zeal of a mounted hussar about to drive his lance through a peasant yeoman, people are apt to do strange things. Things one wouldn't expect them to do. Things one might call downright ... unnatural. Like the three frat brothers who wrench their gaze away from the bikini-clad strumpets draped over the first-deck seats to train their binoculars on the vault pit. Or the women heading for the video monitor, who have just abandoned places in the rest-room line they have been holding for 30 minutes. Or the enterprising youngsters pelting spectators with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SERGEI BUBKA : KEY TO THE VAULT | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

...distilled spirits, according to M. Shanken Communications, shrank from 190 million in 1980 to 135 million in 1995--a drop of 29%. Beer and wine marketers, meanwhile, exploiting the mistaken perception that their products contain less alcohol than distilled spirits, used such icons as Spuds MacKenzie and the Swedish Bikini Team to boost sales by even more than the distillers lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEAGRAM'S ON THE BOX | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

Questions about why she wears a bikini really irritate U.S. beach-volleyball player Nancy Reno. "It's just logical," she says. "We play in 85 degrees-to-100 degrees temperatures. We wear them for performance." At first glance, logic does not seem to have had much to do with the rest of Reno's career. The Illinois native is master of a sport dominated by the Southern Californians, who invented it. And if you are expecting a beach-blanket bimbo, think again. On the way to becoming the world's best blocker and a favorite for the Olympic gold, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLYMPIC MONITOR | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...Nail 'er! And why not add something about her appearance while you're at it? Also the chemistry TF who humiliated you in section that one time--don't forget to mention that he taught an entire class with fly down, displaying to all the world his purple bikini underwear...

Author: By Dmitri Tymoczko, | Title: The Evaluation Game | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

...wasn't for that damn Czech class you signed up for on Tuesday afternoon, you might have been privy to the winter beach in Sever Quad. How free it would have felt to don a houndstooth check bikini in winter and beg disgusted onlookers to rub sun tan lotion on your back. Oh, to be scum in Harvard Yard on a Tuesday afternoon...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: O, TO BE SCUM! | 12/2/1995 | See Source »

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