Word: lip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is the Walking Dead category, people who seem to have been killed, then made over with rouge and lip gloss. Then there are the marginally luckier people who appear to have just returned from roasting under tanning lamps. Finally there are the hybrids, those who fall between categories, appearing both dead...
Other kids also affect somewhat un-Utah fashions: shaved heads with ponytails on top, T shirts that read YOU SUCK, nose rings and lip rings. University of Utah freshman Matt Irvine says many dress alternatively but have firm morals -- a buddy of his at the concert leaves for his two-year Mormon mission in a week. Lis Calder, 22, says the Utah alternative-music scene is a reaction to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: "I was raised in a strict Mormon family. My aunt thinks there's an evil spirit surrounding rock music...
...time hydrologists figured this out, it was almost too late. A huge earthen dam had been thrown up along the southern lip of Lake Okeechobee and a great swath of the northern Everglades transformed into prized farmland -- source of most of the U.S.'s cane sugar and 10% of its winter vegetables. To speed development and protect those farmlands from flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s began laying down a system of ditches so vast that astronauts can spot its outlines from space: 1,400 miles of levees, pipes and canals. Today nature's cycle had been...
...administration seems content with a Vance-Owen Harvard, where Jews, Blacks, whites, Asians, Latinos and the rest of us find geographic and extracurricular niches, and no one advances on the others' territory. Learning about each other and living together happily--not just peacefully--are given lip service, but no policy manifestation...
Some classmates felt that Harvard students didn't do the reading as thoroughly as we Radcliffe students had, and relied on a ready lip to get through the class discussion. I was accustomed to boys relying on their imagination more and their memories less. In any case, it livened up our classes...