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Word: limp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cash flow problem for his final election party. In contrast to his earlier func- tions, where the alcohol and food flowedfreely, this final gathering featured a cash bar,and the food offerings featured a cash bar, andthe food offerings were limited to cheese,crackers and some limp potato chips...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weld Beats Silber In Tight Governor's Race | 11/7/1990 | See Source »

Even physicists fall in love. If I were casting her in a movie, I would pick someone dark and sultry like Marlee Matlin, a little mysterious with an angry, damaged air. She has a slight limp -- do we know why? A childhood accident? Family tragedy? Does he find it sexy, affecting? Mileva Maric was a dark- haired Serbian woman who dreamed of being a physicist, a pre-feminist fighter, 21 when she entered the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. There she met Albert Einstein, a 17-year-old bohemian with thick curly hair and dark, warm eyes, bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Einstein In Love | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

After fractious primaries, Democrats will limp into the general election having spent most of their money defeating each other. There they will face tanned, rested and ready Republicans sitting atop huge, unused campaign treasuries. Ahead in the main arena for Richards is West Texas oil millionaire Clayton Williams, who breezed to the Republican nomination in an easy March primary. In California, G.O.P. candidate (and U.S. Senator) Pete Wilson is lying in wait, while Democrats Attorney General John Van de Kamp and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein have at each other. Among Florida's Democrats, former Senator Lawton Chiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunbelt Mud Slides | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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