Word: hiccuped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...track of more than pedicure appointments. One such customer is Lisa Simpson, president of Sony Online Entertainment, who explains, "I have to go from meetings where people are wearing shorts and flip-flops to dinners at the Four Seasons. With Patrick, I can shift through these worlds without a hiccup...
...next year, Dartboard will barely have the time to hiccup after our exams end. Do the math: seven days this year, two days next year. Eloquently put, it sucks--and we've seen it before. Intersession 2000 will actually be a genetically and administrationally engineered clone of the two-day wonder that was Intersession 1998. Even at a four-year college, institutional memory isn't that short...
...clay. At the same time this internal furnace corrodes the mountain from the inside, rain and melting snow have been softening it up from the outside. The result, in the surprisingly colloquial argot of the geologist, is a mountain gone "rotten." So rotten, in fact, that a mere seismic hiccup is all it would take to unleash an avalanche of mud on the homes below...
...they caused stampedes at toy stores, hitting annual sales of $600 million in 1985 before their popularity waned at decade's end. Now marketed by Mattel, the Kids, which sell for about $30, are back--and more lifelike than ever. Some are able to eat, sneeze and even hiccup. But hold on to the 1978 originals, which command "re-adoption fees" of up to $25,000 from collectors...
Viewers were aghast. No, not at TV hostess KATHIE LEE GIFFORD's mawkish reports of her son Cody's every hiccup and hangnail. They're used to that. Last week, however, labor activist Charles Kernaghan testified in Congress that the Wal-Mart clothing line bearing Kathie Lee's name is stitched together by children in Honduras who work for 31 cents an hour. As co-host Regis Philbin flinched, Gifford launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when...