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Word: jointedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hasek is also stubborn. In 1989, playing for Czech's army team, he refused to skate during a key game against his hometown's team. In Buffalo he's already legend enough that the Marine Midland Arena, where the Sabres skate, is flanked by two gargoyle goalies splayed apart in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hockey's Flopper Stopper | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

John Laroche is a serial monomaniac who learns everything about Ice Age fossils; then chucks fossils for orchids, becomes a celebrated breeder, then a thief of wild orchids; and finally turns his back on the plant world and its obsessed hobbyists and dives into computers. As he explains to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Orchid Thief By Susan Orlean | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

9:30 a.m. Happy in the continued evidence of my good health, I am off to my sigmoidoscopy. I don't like what I see in the examination room: a black, jointed, snakelike creature with two little eyes and a mouth that squirts jets of air and water. This thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diary Of A Mid-Life Checkup | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

Halberstam covered the sit-ins as a 25-year-old reporter for the Nashville Tennessean. As he writes, "I knew in some instinctive way from the first time I watched the young people walk from Kelly Miller Smith's church to the Woolworth's counter that I was watching the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Children's Crusade | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

Rimes has taken that popcorn-kernel-in-the-throat catch, married it to old-fashioned yodeling and become a crossover star. On the hit single Blue and on an Eddy Arnold duet of the venerable Cattle Call, her voice breaks with startling ease and, in a microsecond, pole-vaults from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: INCLINED TO BE JUST LIKE PATSY | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

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