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Word: pencils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just how was it you didn't know this missile was there?' 'Is it right that you were flying up there without sufficient electronic countermeasures?' The Air Force doesn't want him to answer those types of questions. If it were me, I wouldn't let him near a pencil either. If I were trying to milk O'Grady but not get him burned, I'd keep him on TV. It's tougher to ask tough questions that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GLOMMING ON TO A HERO | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...well in her counterterrorism course in high-speed evasive driving. She is an expert in international weapons proliferation and economics. She can pass for Mexican, Egyptian, Italian, Indian, Spanish, even Thai. On assignment for the CIA in the Third World, Sarah, decked out in dangling earrings and tight-fitting pencil jeans, foiled surveillance by fading into hooker-infested back alleys. She has sat primly in "love hotels" taking notes as informants rattled on about the doings of a terrorist cell. Sarah should have been the perfect spy. But her boss had other ideas. He assigned her to a desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKIRTS AND DAGGERS | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

...never sat in the Fenway Park press box on a summer night with the windows wide open, the breeze in your face, a Coke in one hand and a pencil to keep score with in the other, well...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: A Final Look | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...pencil and the paper is a very powerful way of voting," said council member Kathleen L. Born, who captured her seat by just 12 scratches of pencil on paper...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Cambridge May Computerize Election Process | 5/24/1995 | See Source »

...down to one. Well, actually two. "There's another weird plant that's growing in there that isn't pot," Mel says. Compared to the forest in Johnny's closet, Mel's closet looks like it has been clearcut. Next to one sickly plant is a pencil, stuck in the soil "to support the plant so it won't tip over...

Author: By Michael R. Colton, | Title: Sowing the Weeds of Love | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

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