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Word: late (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made you cringe in "A Fish Called Wanda" and probably yak on your lei at the Owl Luau. But in fleshing out the vague tradition invoked by these modern-day incidents, the fact is: Our experience constitutes the wriggling tail end of an intensely popular fad of the late 1930s...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: (Gulp): A Brief History of Goldfish Swallowing | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...seek talks with his nuclear neighbor. India, which ordered its troops on high alert immediately following the coup, has so far reacted cautiously to the news. After two days of vainly casting about for a credible civilian administration to do his bidding, Musharraf had in fact declared martial law late Thursday, making himself Pakistan's effective head of state. He had been reluctant to assume the reins of government, and with good reason. The International Monetary Fund ? Pakistan's economic life-support system ? on Wednesday suspended discussions over new loans, and warned that there'd be no more money until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Martial Law, it's Just Planned Democracy | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...became interested in slowing down light and Bose-Einstein condensates in the late 1980s, while a graduate student at the University of Aarhus in Denmark...

Author: By Graeme C. A. wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hau Receives Tenure; Physics Professor Slowed Light | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...This year, by August she knew who Pedro and Nomar were, of course, and by Labor Day she knew that some rookie ??"Doobie?"?"It's Daubach, Mom" ? was having a fine campaign. Shortly thereafter the Sox went into Yankee Stadium near the tail end of a tremendous late-season road trip and swept the reigning world champions three straight, finishing by beating Roger Clemens. (He's a player in this saga, too. Is he ever.) I was vacationing on Nantucket with my wife and daughter, listening to the Clemens game on my mother-in-law's 30-year-old transistor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith of Our Fathers | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

...Anne have a son and daughter old enough to appreciate ? and share ? their parents' excitement. Barry's father, an artist up in Boothbay, Maine, is a fair-weather fan, but it is fair weather these days and he's aboard. Jane's mother in Wellesley told her daughter late last night, during the ritualistic right-after-the-final-out phone call, "I think it may happen in my lifetime." My friend Jim in New Hampshire has a brand-new daughter, and has already assured her that the Sox will do it in her lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith of Our Fathers | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

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