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Word: bowings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going on here, because hunters manage to kill some 650,000 turkeys every year, but there's no question that turkeys, whose eyes bug out on each side of their head, have close to 360[-degree] vision, and their hearing is pretty good too. My Missouri friend was a bow hunter, which means he was more interested in hunting than eating. He said that you had to call a turkey to within 25 yards of where you were lying, camouflaged, with your bow at full draw, to have a chance of killing one with an arrow. This is not easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOBBLING OF AMERICA | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...route of DeWolfe to Bow to Quincy is very heavily traveled by students coming from the river houses to classes and libraries," he said...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Construction Begins On Quincy Square Park | 11/22/1995 | See Source »

...satellites. Farrakhan banged on the American mind with a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom: Mumbo jumbo will hoodoo you. He went on about obelisks and the intricate, unintelligible meanings of mystical, pseudo-Pharaonic numerologies. He sounded by turns menacing and Rotarian: a salesman in a sharp bow tie, the hallucination of Mussolini channeling Booker T. Washington. Behind him postured his son from the Fruit of Islam, in sunglasses and paramilitary Graustark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN ELEGY FOR INTEGRATION | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

...respected member of their once formidable but now rapidly shrinking Southern delegation. Saying he lacks the "zest and enthusiasm" for a fifth term, Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia announced he would step down at the end of next year--the eighth Senate Democrat to call it quits and bow out of next year's elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: OCTOBER 8-14 | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...that matter, of Dante or of T.S. Eliot--are free to disagree with his beliefs or the lack thereof. What no one can deny is the power of the words he has found to bridge the disjunctions of his life and faith. As he wrote in "The Harvest Bow," "The end of art is peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEAMUS HEANEY: A POET OF THE THRESHOLD | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

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