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Word: dirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some friends often complain to me about their computer mice, which they find disobedient after five or six months of use: the pointer seldom moves in the direction you want it to go. The source of the problem can often be traced to the dust and dirt that has accumulated inside of the device. So clean your mouse (or trackball) interior often. It's an easy job and it may save you a lot of eye strain or wrist pain...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: Keep it Running | 10/5/1993 | See Source »

...Times. Hell, Molly wouldn't even give me gas money to get to Rhode Island, and the powers that be at the Crimson sure weren't going to give me some guinea-pig comper to mark up. So if I was going to get some dirt about tattooing, I would need to get one myself. I couldn't, after all, pretend that my dignity prohibited me from going under the needle. I'm already marked--thrice, as luck would have it: a pathetic whale on my right ankle, a David Smith sculpture (Voltri-Bolton I) on my left ankle...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: TATTOO YOU | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

During the early days of the ArabIsraeli peace accord, Christopher P. Glew '96 was up to his elbows in dirt--very old dirt...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 9/25/1993 | See Source »

...here!" he shouted hoarsely. His liberators dug through 6 in. of dirt, removed three wooden planks and four cinder blocks, pushed away a heavy metal plate and helped him climb out of his hellhole. He embraced them and then, in a gravelly voice that crackled with gratitude and relief, he asked a cop for a smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manhattan Hellhole | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

Wherever the researchers looked throughout the area, they found the same story: abandoned buildings and layers of volcanic ash and debris from fierce wind storms. After 300 years, when the rains returned, so did the people. The telltale scars of scarcity eventually were buried under 15 feet of new dirt. A new empire, whose capital was Babylon, arose and fell. Today the region is flush once again with wheat fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery of the 300-Year Drought | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

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