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Word: blobs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Solomon Islands. (His verdict: "The yolkiest eggs I had ever seen.") To be sociable, the author occasionally took swigs of kava, the mouth- and mind-numbing intoxicant of the islands, which is made by chewing the root of a plant known as Piper methysticum and then mixing the blob with water. The best kava, connoisseurs assure him, comes from root masticated by pretty teenage girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannibal Country | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...swung by a Tucson pottery shop to pick up some firebricks for a backyard kiln. Then he purchased some glass ovenware at a nearby hardware store. A few days later, he materialized in a graduate student's doorway, brandishing a couple of Pyrex custard dishes melted to a misshapen blob. "We can make telescope mirrors out of this!" Angel exclaimed. Thus began a monumental and quixotic effort to reinvent the central light-gathering surface of the telescope, from its initial design to its final polishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shoot for the Stars | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...truly messy business. Out of respect, the television does not show the Red Cross "Disaster Services" medical tents, each of which fill with a platoon of heat exhaustion victims. A man wearing a doctor's glove stands at each aid station with a handful of vaseline. Runners grab a blob and smear it around their groin and between the legs to prevent chafing...

Author: By William H. Bachman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALK-DO NOT RUN | 4/24/1992 | See Source »

...Patricia Bowman -- the name virtually every news organization now felt free to use -- told ABC's Diane Sawyer that she came forward so that other rape victims would not be scared off by her experiences. "I'm not a blue blob. I'm a person," she said. "I have nothing to be ashamed of." According to her lawyer, David Roth, Bowman turned down offers of up to $500,000 to tell her story, choosing Sawyer because of her "impeccable reputation for integrity." PrimeTime paid her nothing, but she told Sawyer she would not rule out taking money for future interviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was She Right to Go Public? | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...exoneration, Smith celebrated with his family, then spent the weekend catching up on his tan at the estate. Meanwhile, his accuser remained in hiding in a vain attempt to maintain her anonymity. Only hours after the jury read its verdict, TV technicians on some channels dramatically dissolved the blurry blob that had hidden her face from viewers while the trial proceeded. From now on she will be recognizable as the woman who accused William Kennedy Smith of rape -- and was not believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palm Beach Trial | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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