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Word: getaway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the dark fields. The road is red from the taillights and slippery and I can't get a grip, but then boom, Esteban pops the clutch and the Subaru whinnies and I get in while it's moving and we're off, Esteban at the wheel. Like a getaway car! In a minute Esteban's doing 80 m.p.h. He's veering on and off the road. "ˇFlojo! ˇFlojo!" Marisa is saying, urging him to slow down, but young Esteban has something to prove to her and to T/N, so 80 it is, the engine hitting high notes...

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

While Chun's getaway car driver paced on Plympton Street, Crimson President Joshua H. Simon '00 offered to return Chun to Lampoon President Matthew C. Warburton '00 for a modest price...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimeds Nab 'Poon Prankster on 14 Plympton Roof | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Feider, who doesn't have definite plans yet, might consider heading to London, where the Four Seasons hotel is auctioning off an antimillennium getaway. The lucky winner will spend the night in a soundproof suite, sans clocks and calendars, watching black-and-white movies and eating dinner from a pre-1950s menu. The anachronistic evening fits the disposition of Britons, most of whom plan to stay home on New Year's Eve, according to a survey of 100,000 by the department store Selfridges. "It reflects the mood of the '90s," says Selfridges marketing manager Nicola Lloyd. "People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auld Lang Sigh | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...definitive portrait of America's past 99 years than would all the centennial books laid decade to decade. Some entries are moving (Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter from a Birmingham, Ala., jail), some comical (fugitive Clyde Barrow's 1934 note to Henry Ford, praising his "dandy" V8 getaway car). They add up to an exceptional bedside companion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Letters: Of The Century | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...ARCTIC GETAWAY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Fulfill a Fantasy | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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