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Word: diamondbacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were smashing and apparently attempting to destroy a red Diamondback bicycle chained to a parking meter on Bow Street just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, police said...

Author: By Jason T. Benowitz, | Title: Two Men Arrested In Bike Smashing | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

...early 1980s, David made his own move into the wild. For a pittance he bought a 30-acre spread at Terlingua Ranch, a grandly named stretch of bare-bones, no-nonsense privacy among the mesquite and greasewood of the Chihuahuan desert, where lizards and diamondback rattlers are the nearest neighbors. To a few friends, he was even known jokingly as "Henry David"--as in Henry David Thoreau, the literary patron saint of nature lovers and solitary souls. He took a passionate stand against paving the two-lane road into Terlingua Ranch. "We both worried about the destruction of mankind from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...game is Texas Hold 'Em (no limit), a diamondback species of seven-card stud in which each player gets two cards down, and then five cards usable by all players are dealt face up; the first three at the same time, then the fourth, then the last. You can't bring in fresh money, so that when you run dry, you're gone, frozen out. The last two gunslingers left on the tournament's fourth day are firing from behind stacks worth a total of $1.94 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, Nevada The Big Poker Freeze-Out | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

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