Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hugged the trunk, and "the tree spoke to me in a beautiful, very calming, powerful female voice. She said, 'Julia, think of the trees.' I said, 'Of course--what do you think I'm doing up here?' She said, 'No. Think of how the trees allow their branches to blow in the wind. I'll do everything to save...
...says a senior Western oil executive, "we'd sign with the Iranians. In this part of the world, they are by far the most trustworthy partners for a pipeline deal. Terrorism? Who's going to blow up their own pipeline?" But the U.S. option, the east-west line, gathered support from some regional leaders--Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev, for example--who thought it would be more secure...
...writing about the constrictions of the Mexican society of 50 years ago. The scriptwriters of Titanic (favorite movie of Vili Fualaau and Mary Letourneau) composed a variation on the theme of impetuous breakaway. In 1936, just as the world was preparing to blow itself apart, England's King Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson enacted their drama of self-absorbed abdication. The basic story changes little, only the details: the personalities, the stakes they play for, the icebergs waiting in the dark, and as we now see, the ages of the lovers...
MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin has been warned -- watch out for Boris Berezovsky. As Yeltsin?s prot?g? Sergei Kiriyenko sets about building a new government, the tycoon Berezovsky yesterday dealt Yeltsin a stunning political blow by being appointed secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States. ?From a standing start, Berezovsky in 10 days managed to persuade 11 presidents of former Soviet Republics to present Yeltsin with an unpalatable fait accompli,? says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. ?Berezovsky ran rings around Yeltsin...
...space, no one can hear you squeak. Scientific progress has claimed the lives of 45 baby rats aboard the space shuttle Columbia, five times the expected death toll, after the mothers of these experimental rodents refused to suckle their young. It's a pretty serious blow, not least for the brain development tests astronauts were hoping to run. Now NASA is set to placate the fears of animal rights groups with an official rat death inquiry...