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Word: messing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contaminated cargo originated in 1989 when a train carrying acrylic acid and other chemicals derailed in Freeland, Mich. CSX Transportation of Jacksonville, Fla., cleaned up the mess and sent it to be landfilled. But members of Greenpeace and other environmental groups bird-dogged the train, and some protesters even chained themselves to it. Two weeks ago, South Carolina fined CSX $21,975 because the train was leaking what appeared to be a toxic liquid. Meanwhile the controversy has scared off four landfill operators so far. Last week the train rolled out of Sumter, S.C., like a rail-bound Flying Dutchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLLUTION Contaminated Cargo | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...curse of the Kennedys") would degenerate into sleazy checkout-counter revelations ("Jack and Bobby and Marilyn"). The serious lawmaker in Ted Kennedy would turn now and then into a drunken, overage, frat-house boor, the statesman into a party animal, the romance of the Kennedys into a smelly, toxic mess. The family patriarch, the oldest surviving Kennedy male, would revert to fat, sloppy baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Teddy | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Dr. Prentice frantically struggles to unwind this mess. The plot thickens when Nicholas Beckett (Mark Mindich), the matter-of-fact porter from the Chamber Hotel, arrives and returns Mrs. Prentice's "newly cleaned" garments--the forgotten extras from a night of her own promiscuity. Mrs. Prentice is so over-sexed that her husband predicts, "she'll go to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: Incest, Brits and Freudian Slips | 4/25/1991 | See Source »

...course, decline to be named but readily stamp Kelley as someone you'd hate to have for a dinner partner, let alone a confidant: "She will suck you into her world and then betray you . . . She craves attention." Or, "She exploits people, and I don't like to mess with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeeow! The Saga Of Kitty | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

According to the owner, bondage's bad reputation comes from people who "mess up" or "don't communicate...

Author: By Esme Howard, | Title: Enhancing the Sexual Experience | 4/20/1991 | See Source »

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