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Word: polishers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...struck out. Maybe it's the belly over the belt or the hair that looks like a deforestation project. Or maybe you're just unlucky. Go to a keyboard, slug in mailorderbrides.com and suddenly you're an international bon vivant. Do you try Ebony Gems of Nubia, the Polish Love Connection or Thai the Knot? You can shop for a mate by age or size. The world is yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click Here for Love | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...radio broadcaster called him "the Yankee Clipper," a tribute to the way he sailed so majestically while pursuing fly balls across the green expanses of center field. His batting skill won him the sobriquet "Joltin' Joe." Meanwhile, the young man from Fisherman's Wharf was acquiring a Manhattan polish. He took up tailored suits and the high life at Toots Shor's nightclub, where the habitues treated him like a god who had inexplicably deigned to join their mortal company. He dated beautiful women, including actress Dorothy Arnold, whom he later married and with whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Left and Gone Away: JOE DIMAGGIO (1914-1999) | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...opera centers on a cantor, Yussele, whose beautiful voice earns him the nickname Solevey, the Polish vernacular for "nightingale." To study music, he must leave his tiny town and his love, Esther, behind...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lowell Opera Composers Speak at Hillel | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

...showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, almost twice the legal limit of 0.10. Then there was the matter of his eight previous arrests for drunk driving. The grumbling began later, when the N.Y.P.D. took possession of a 1988 Acura that belonged to librarian Pavel Grinberg. The Polish immigrant, 28, who had been swerving when police pulled him over, was legally drunk at a more modest 0.11 blood-alcohol level. But he had never before been arrested for drunk driving, and he was still relieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gotham on the Wagon | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

CLAWS Trimmed, no polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artifact | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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