Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even amid tales of government laboratories' producing poison-filled umbrellas and conducting bizarre experiments on the sperm count of baboons, the suggestion that apartheid's secret weapon was a party drug was hard to take seriously, according to TIME South Africa bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "This was clearly a bit of freelance work by people using secret military resources to build a profitable business," says Hawthorne. In other words, turning illegal swords into illegal plowshares...
Except that I'm a bit tired of the routine comedy that attends being father of the bride. Here's a joke I've been living on since the date was set: "I've learned the phrase 'And that's a very good price.' I ask them, 'What's a bad price?'" It earns the appropriate level of laughter...
...history of taking back a good chunk of what it gave--and when you least expect it. Investors got a reminder of that last Tuesday, when the Dow plunged 151 points, part of a four-day drop. It fell an additional 176 points by midday Wednesday, recovered a bit, then fell 70 points Friday...
...little luck as an actress but worked as a model before moving to Hollywood in 1933 for a part in the chorus of Roman Scandals. Strikingly pretty, with chestnut hair dyed blond (until MGM hairdressers, seeking a more distinctive look, turned it red in 1942), she landed bit parts in B movies and moved up to classy fare like Stage Door, in which she held her own with Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers...
...talk, he has a shot at building a case this summer." The problem with that is that Monica Lewinsky, by herself, does not an airtight case make. It seems much more likely that Starr will wait it out -- and thus our long national nightmare has just gotten quite a bit longer...