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Word: eye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daschle seems an odd candidate for the role he is about to play as President Clinton's first line of defense on Capitol Hill. A slight and boyish-looking man of 48, he had never managed a major bill before becoming Senate Democratic leader last year. Almost incapable of eye-to-eye engagement with the television camera, he prefers to read his speeches, softly and deliberately, from behind a pair of glasses. "He looks like a choirboy," sighs veteran South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, a fire breather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEADER OF THE BLOCK PARTY | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...America's containment advocates but also frustrates Beijing. When Chinese officials felt out Nye in late 1995 about a U.S. reaction if China were to threaten Taiwan, he told them, "Nobody knows." In a later interview with TIME, he elaborated, saying, "There's less ambiguity here than meets the eye. But we don't want either side to rock the boat. We don't want Taiwan to declare independence, which would be the case if we gave it a blank check, and we don't want the Chinese to use aggressive tactics, which would be the case if we gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: WAKING UP TO THE NEXT SUPERPOWER | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...poem on the door says, "It's the lead you seek/When you look them in the eye./Their hearts must be breaking/As you glide right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: THE SMOKE FROM CIGAR | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...crucial difference between Ultimate Fighting, the bareknuckle battles on pay-per-view TV that some lawmakers want to ban, and a game we played in grade school called Dirty Soccer is that Ultimate Fighting specifically prohibits biting and eye gouging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIRTY LIKE IT OUGHT TO BE | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...ball to the chain-link fence at the end of the field defended by your opponents, as I explained to my wife one day. How you did that was limited only by the efforts of the guys who were biting you and gouging your eye as you carried the ball down the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIRTY LIKE IT OUGHT TO BE | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

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