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Word: overnighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Near the theater, we watch a parade of people walk by, dragging air mattresses and blankets and cardboard boxes and yoga mats. Definitely the slept-on-the-street-overnight crowd. We stare...

Author: By Emily C. Graff | Title: The Summer of our Discontent | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...There was fear that the violence might spread overnight. The government enforced a curfew, and in the morning Uighur districts appeared largely undisturbed. On July 8 small groups gathered in both Uighur and Han areas, but few people were carrying clubs and knives. There were reports of scattered attacks, but no large-scale violence. Dozens of trucks and hundreds of troops lined Renmin Road, a major east-west corridor that roughly separates the Uighur and Han districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tensions Remain As Chinese Troops Take Control in Urumqi | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

When the placenta did come out, Cassandra, dazed from 21 hours of labor, somehow made sure the nurses delivered it to us in a flat plastic container, which I put into an ice-filled Monsters vs Aliens cooler I brought. When I asked if I could keep the placenta overnight in the refrigerator out in the hall, the nurses looked at me like I was crazy. When you gross out people who work at a hospital, you have accomplished something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afterbirth: It's What's For Dinner | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard because we clearly are in a very serious financial state,” said Harry R. Lewis ’68, former dean of Harvard College. “This is a place where it takes a lot to understand how it works. The learning curve is not overnight...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS Finance Dean To Depart After Less Than A Year | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...which affects not only casinos but also slot machines and bookmakers - is set to push up unemployment levels in one of the regions already hardest hit by the economic crisis. In Russia, an estimated 400,000 people will be put out of work, and in Ukraine, "overnight, 200,000 workers have been left without a job," says Hryhoriy Trypulsky, vice president of the Ukrainian Association of Gambling Operators. "The legislation has been rushed through without any thought of the consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Bets Are Off: Russia and Ukraine Ban Gambling | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

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