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Word: blowingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Look directly at your opposition to stop him in his tracks. Most defenders will slow down if you get in their wayostop as if you are going to let him blow by, then start moving again to thoroughly confound and irritate him. This "stutter-step," coupled with a few head-fakes, should be enough to elude even compact cars. Keep your center of gravity low for best results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drinky Drink | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...disappointment that there are only two singers in the group, but the crowd is liquored up enough not to care. Because of artistic differences, the boys explain, they got rid of the rest of the group, and now perform high classical works. The crowd chuckles tentativley, someone blows a pitch and suddenly the two boys are crooning a gassed-up country song about "dee-troit barbeque ribs." From out of the audience, two more tuxedoed guys spin around and race to the stage, doo-wopping and snapping to the tune. Others follow, tripping down the fire escape in the back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Behind the Curtain with the Kroks | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...sufficient evidence to prosecute anyone in the death of the six-year-old beauty queen. Ramsey?s parents, long considered prime suspects in the 1996 murder, expressed "mixed feelings" over the decision, and reiterated their hope that the killer would be brought to justice. "The investigation took a major blow from the grand jury," says TIME Denver bureau correspondent Dick Woodbury. "We may learn more about the reasoning behind their decision, but the fact remains that the odds of reaching a conclusion on this case just got a whole lot longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jury May Be Grand; Its Verdict Isn't | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...scientists can't say whether Neanderthals engaged in cannibalism only during famines or whether it was a regular part of their life. Either way, the finding deals a fatal blow to the image of a kinder, gentler caveman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Repast for Neanderthal | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Before long, Tyler has a chain of fight clubs up and running all over the country and is molding their members into a paramilitary organization that aims, finally, to blow up all the credit-card companies and, just for good measure, TRW. It is along about here that Fight Club, which is Jim Uhls' adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel, lurches from satire into fantasy. For we begin to realize that the hunky Pitt is the willowy Norton's doppelganger, a projection of fantasies about masculine mastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Conditional Knockout | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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