Word: clogging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than absorbing them, like most sunscreens. You remember titanium dioxide. Like zinc oxide, it's one of those gunky white pastes that lifeguards used to plaster all over themselves. Both chemicals have been reformulated so that they no longer leave a residue. But some people find that these sunblocks clog their pores or feel sticky on their skin, so they may prefer one of the new products with Parsol 1789, like Ombrelle, PreSun Ultra or Shade UVA Guard...
...resilient Fleetwood Mac has proved that, like platform shoes, it is a vestige of the 1970's that won't go away. The band's two new releases, "Silver Springs" and "The Landslide" clog the easy-listening airwaves. Fleetwood Mac even made an appearance at this year's Grammy Awards, singing a medley of their "favourites." Although the performance seemed rushed and dissonant (as medleys often do by virtue of fitting half a dozen hits into two minutes of stage time), the crowd did not seem to mind. The applause, especially from the forty-something section of the audience...
...certainly do. For 12 years now, you've had me avoiding foods with fats that might clog up my arteries. If I'm going to get new arteries in two weeks, can I eat as much Italian sausage as I want to between now and then...
...half the battle. Hooking a nonstandard CD recorder up to an industry-standard computer may take a bit of doing--even for someone who's not afraid to read a manual. Then there's the bandwidth problem. Downloading full-length music CDs over even a high-speed modem will clog your phone line for a lot more hours than it takes to drive to the nearest Tower Records and back. That's assuming you can find a full-length version of the music you want. The RealAudio versions of songs that most Websites make available are hardly CD quality...
...When storms come through, the falling leaves clog the drains. So every hour we cleaned the drain," said Merle A. Bicknell, manager of Harvard Yard...