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Word: looms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sport where it is hard to maintain intensity for an entire season, it may be a blessing that the Crimson is not peaking yet. But the squad must gain momentum in the coming weeks if it is to survive its treacherous schedule. Yale, Brown and Princeton loom ahead as key April contests for Harvard...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: The Lax World Is in Disarray | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

...penalty, she had to labor under the disadvantage of having been endorsed by editors of a newspaper produced by death-row inmates at the state prison in Huntsville. With Mattox and Richards set to face each other again in a runoff election in April, the issue is sure to loom large. "Maybe the next step will be scratch-and-sniff ads, so voters can sample the smell of the death chamber," complains Richards' campaign spokesman Mark McKinnon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of Life and Death | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

From atop a windswept hill, the panoramic landscape looks eerily beautiful -- and yet completely hostile to life. Even at the height of summer, the scene is one of frigid desolation. To the west lies a saltwater bay whose surface is frozen solid. Beyond the bay loom glittering glaciers and towering, rocky peaks. On the south and east rises a blinding white shelf of permanent ice, so thick that it grinds against the seabed far below. And to the north is a snow- covered volcano that continuously belches noxious fumes. This is the bottom of the world, where winds can reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Antarctica | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

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