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Word: eyeblink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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That last question really steamed me. It refers to a garbled report that panda sex takes place only in "an eyeblink." I thought of asking the bloke how long he and his wife take, but luckily I caught my tongue in time. Instead, I showed him the clipping from London saying that I do quite a bit of preliminary wrestling and light biting, just like Alex Comfort recommends. Except for the gentleman from the Times, who wanted to know my feelings about the Laffer Curve, everybody wants to talk about sex. All that locker-room chortling about my "mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Enough with the Jokes, Already | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...carves the slope with a surgeon's precision, hugging the fall line, darting through slalom gates with eyeblink speed. Down below they call him "the silent Swede," but up here Ingemar Stenmark is eloquent, communicating easily with the mountain. He knows what it will give him and what he must give in return. In his powdery wake, he leaves competitors a curt challenge: "I set the pace, and now you guys beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giant in the Slalom | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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