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Word: follows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their kitchen table or gathered in the parlor listening to the radio. Under the elm trees, "drivers had pulled over, parking bumper to bumper, and turned on their radios to hear Roosevelt. They had rolled down the windows and opened the car doors. Everywhere the same voice. You could follow without missing a single word as you strolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: (1882-1945) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...want to take chances with public safety," said Seattle mayor Paul Schell, announcing that the city has canceled a huge celebration planned for the area surrounding the Space Needle. The Y2K threat has also put a damper on a half-day celebration planned in Philadelphia, in which citizens will follow Mayor Ed Rendell to a different celebratory site each hour. Although that event is going ahead as planned, thousands have canceled - including nearly half of the 1,000 couples expected to participate in a mass wedding at midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrationless in Seattle | 12/28/1999 | See Source »

Safranek is hoping for a friendlier hearing in court. He's also willing to compromise. "We would follow some reasonable regulations," he says, such as a rule that home schoolers pass exams to be eligible. "But we shouldn't be shut out entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside, Wanting In | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

They get out near Jovellanos, and we never get their names. In Jovellanos, a medium-size adobe town of narrow streets, we get lost, quickly and irrevocably. At a street corner, there appears beside us a man on a bicycle. He knows where to go, he says--just follow him. We rumble behind him and his bike at 15 m.p.h., the streets full of onlookers watching our parade--left turn, right, left, left, right, left, 10 minutes and there we are, back on the main road. He points ahead, toward the on-ramp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...passenger, Dale, an English-speaking med student from St. Kitts, who decides he's sick of speaking Spanish, so he'll ride to Cienfuegos with us. He's studying Spanish there, the first year of seven he'll spend in Cuba on his way to a medical degree. We follow the taxi into Cienfuegos, drop off Dale at his barbed wire-surrounded dormitory, check into a hotel with red light bulbs and a lounge singer plowing through the high points of the Billy Joel songbook, and we're done for the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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