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Word: inmost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sexual arousal intensified by social constraint: "You can't come into the room without my feeling all over me a ripple of flame." Writhing under Fullerton's sporadic indifference, she could summon up reserves of anger and pride: "What you wish, apparently, is to take of my life the inmost & uttermost that a woman -- a woman like me -- can give, for an hour, now & then, when it suits you; & when the hour is over, to leave me out of your mind & out of your life as a man leaves a companion who has accorded him a transient distraction. I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Public Triumph, Private Pain THE LETTERS OF EDITH WHARTON Edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis; Scribner's; 654 pages; $29.95 | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...19th century that it was the first suburb in America to resist the cumbrous embraces of a major metropolis. The defiant localness and privacy remain, along with a communal apartness and vigilant self-government. The Brookline Citizen is aptly named. The '50s sense of asocial privacy never reached the inmost core of Brookline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats: Born to Bustle | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

Contestants will have to fend with defending champions inmost of the ten weight classes--five for men and five for women-but no one has been training especially hard, so newcomers shouldn't be discouraged from entering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arm Wrestlers Prepare; Buckley Awaits Draft | 4/25/1981 | See Source »

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