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Word: dragone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ellicott Machine Corp. ((of Baltimore)) announced that it had sold two Series 370 Dragon dredges to two leading Mexican construction firms. The red, white and blue dredges were named by their purchasers in honor of Presidents Clinton and Salinas for their successful work on NAFTA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Haven't Shut Up Yet | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

Amidst this dark, frenetic atmosphere, however, a phenomenon of rebellion, of hope, has sprung up. Students are slaying the proverbial dragon of "Thou Shalt" and regretlessly pencilling in what is increasingly being called "sun time," time spent doing the non-constructive--sun bathing, playing frisbee, baseball--or even, for the more Anglophilic, cricket, in one of the more beautiful springs in recent memory...

Author: By Send D. Wissman, | Title: Anyone for Tennis? | 5/11/1994 | See Source »

...camera. While Bjornstrand's features oftern seem a mask concealing his ture emotions, Dahlbeck's face bears witness to all the joys and travails to which life has subjected her. Naima Wifstrand as old-Mrs. Armfeldt steals every scene she in which she appears; her impossibly wise old dragon is as good as anything Edna May Oliver ever did in Hollywood...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Bergman Receives Seal of Approval | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke and Wallace Stevens. Jehovah's angels are powerful creatures; in Genesis they guard the east gates of Eden with flashing swords; in Ezekiel they overpower the prophet with awesome visions, four-headed, multiwinged and many eyed; in Revelation they do battle with a dragon. Milton describes the "flaming Seraph, fearless, though alone, encompassed round with foes." And Rilke wrote, "If the archangel now, perilous, from behind the stars took even one step down toward us, our own heart, beating higher and higher, would beat us to death." Every angel, he declared, "is terrifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angels Among Us | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...appeal to Koreans failed miserably because it used a Chinese model. Citibank had to drop a New Year's holiday TV ad targeted at Chinese consumers after viewers complained about the sexual innuendo of corks popping out of champagne bottles. The bank replaced the spot with one featuring a dragon. Marketers acknowledge that it's worth the time and trouble to get it right. Asian Americans, for example, register better-than-average responses to advertising. The returns on ad dollars spent on Asian media run 60% higher than those in the general print and broadcasting vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Mass Market No More | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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