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Word: polese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the town of Tokaimura, none of the 33,900 residents could see the flash or know that radiation was escaping. Nor did they find out soon. Members of the Kawano family, who live in the vicinity, were drawing water from the family well to wash vegetables and brush their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Japan Syndrome | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

What makes hurricanes? They are, in essence, just big wind machines that move heat from the equator to the poles. While they do this very efficiently, the same task could be performed by swarms of independent thunderstorms. It takes a certain amount of magic, in other words, to set a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wait Till Next Time | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

I, on the other hand, had been sleeping, drooling and dreaming my way to the last hurrah of summer vacation. The assortment of poles, hooks and old tennis shoes in the backseat heralded the obvious--we were going fishing. (Note to the Harvard community at-large: this was no "hug...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Father, Son and the Firechicken | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

--Fishing Rod Night (Minnesota Twins): anyone wearing waders admitted free; fishing poles given to the first 5,000 people

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Do the Laundry, They Will Come | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

"Sit down, Sam," the frizzy red-haired lady firmly told her young son. The boy, who looked about eight or nine years old, gave his mother a mischievous grin and raced across the subway car to grab one of the silver poles and spun himself around while the beige and...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, | Title: A Native's Guide to Tourist-Watching | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

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