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Word: powdering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been completely cut off. Though Lithuanian authorities immediately declared that each car could receive only 8 gal. of gas a month, the supply was not expected to last for more than two weeks. Lithuanians could also expect shortages of rubber for making cables and sneakers, sodium for soap powder and television screens, and sugar for candies and confections. Concluded Brazauskas: "We need new political decisions to get us out of our dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Running Out Of Gas? | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...production highlights are the costumes and backdrops. Craig Sonnenberg let his imagination go wild with the costumes for both eras. The Claflin brothers, for instance, sport powder-blue polyester pants suits with collars that reach the shoulders and mustard-yellow hip-hugging bell-bottoms with hideous shirts open to the waste. All the '70s outfits are finished off with perfectly garish accessories and amazingly high and ugly platform shoes (including an incredible pair of ruby platform sandals for Belle-turned-Dorothy...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Pudding Heights | 2/21/1990 | See Source »

...matchstick that ignited the powder was struck the previous Saturday when a rally, staged in Baku by Azerbaijanis demanding independence from the Soviet Union, gave way to anti-Armenian rioting. Marauding bands of Azerbaijanis armed with guns and makeshift weapons ransacked Armenian homes, beating and sometimes killing the residents. Within days, vigilante groups from both sides were organized and dispatched to assist their ethnic brethren in the contested autonomous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and along the border with Armenia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killing Zone | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...lack of proficiency at powder puff politics left my brother and me in constant retreat. We were even desperate enough to try to talk to the correspondents covering the event, a step that the experienced wives were never forced to take. But the society reporter would not talk...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Playing Powder-Puff Politics | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

According to investigators, all four bombs appear to have been made with smokeless powder, easily purchased at any gun store, and packed with nails that spray like shrapnel when the devices explode. All were wrapped in brown paper and twine with neatly typed red-bordered labels. All carried plausible return addresses. Three were deposited in mailboxes in Georgia (the fourth had a smudged postmark) with more postage than necessary, apparently so that the sender could avoid a face-to-face transaction with a clerk at a post office counter. The package intended for Vance may have been sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder by Mail | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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