Word: knobs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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18th century India An ornate silver-covered wood paduka with a gold toe knob...
...Play nice. If applicable, complement her on her snob knob hairdo...
Since Operation Allied Force began a month ago, B-2 bombers from this Air Force base in Knob Noster, Mo., have been making a pressure-packed debut. Adding to the stress of combat has been the close eye of B-2 skeptics. But speaking to TIME last week in their first interviews, pilots say the machine has been a dream to fly. The men described taking off over the soybean fields on 30-hr. flights, often made by pairs of planes, with two men aboard each. One sometimes naps while the other monitors the plane's computer systems, which...
...enter an open passageway or do we grasp the knob of our own door to shove our way in? A Harvard degree comes with lofty expectations, and to fall short of these expectations is equivalent to failure for many. But to saunter through the door wide open, if such a way existed--would that be to succeed...
Hulking and knob-muscled, Depardieu farts, belches and wenches his way through his role as the aging musketeer Porthos. He pronounces the word nipple as "neeple." He is a figure of masculinity not so much past its prime as grotesque and overripened, the kind of colossus Rodin might have come up with if he worked in old Camembert instead of bronze. In short, Depardieu is just the kind of male to frighten an adolescent girl off the gender altogether. In this filmic universe he is the anti...