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Word: pilings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start to feel a deep-seeded need to take a hay ride, to sit on cold metal stands at a high school football game, or to pick some apples, bring them home and have Mom's homemade pie for dessert. Maybe there's time to jump in a pile of leaves or two, and then I'll spend the rest of the day picking them off my dirty flannel shirt. At night, I'd like nothing better than to throw some logs on the fire, turn on a football game and sit back with The New York Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: How To: Cross a Street | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...said. "Chechnya is part of the Russian Federation." In the Chechen capital of Grozny, guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev displayed his own brand of black humor, calling for a massive hole to be dug in the Russian cemetery on the edge of the shattered city in preparation for a new pile of Russian corpses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Back Into The Inferno | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...sweeper, Larson does not pile up the offensive statistics. This season, though, she has scored a goal and added two assists--the first points of her Harvard career...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athlete of the Week: Jessica A. Larson `00 | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...illustrate her point she pulled out an exam paper from the pile she was carrying and read from it: "How are characters in TV shows different from those in novels? Well, in TV you can never see a character's back." She put the paper back into the pile, threw her arms up in the air and exclaimed: "I guess in a novel you can, I don't know...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: Twilight of the Simpsons | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...authorities announced Thursday that police in the southern city of Ryazan had defused a massive bomb in an apartment building after residents reported seeing sacks unloaded from a truck with a covered number plate. But, says Meier, later in the day it emerged that the "bomb" was merely a pile of sacks of sugar. The bombs that are falling in Chechnya, however, are all too real ?- and Moscow may be on the verge of lurching back into its worst military debacle since Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Gears Up for a New Chechnya War | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

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