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Word: rackes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that the boat had been taken to another rack in another part of the shed, with the oars left in the back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oarsmen Win Opener At Henley Royal Regatta | 7/6/1990 | See Source »

...President and Prime Minister, and Mohammed Id Ashawi, 59, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. All the inmates are said to be in poor health because of inadequate medical care and, in some cases, the effects of torture. Some reportedly are victims of the "German chair," a modern-day torture rack used by Syria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persecution Repression's Hall of Shame | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...waving crowds abused civil rights demonstrators in 1960 and 1990. In a high school Humanities class, Joey (a boy I'd known from kindergarten) casually remarked that he planned on skipping school and "bust some nigger heads with my nigger stick"-- the wooden club he kept in the gun rack of his pickup truck. Like nearly every other pickup truck in the South, Joey's truck had Confederate flag vanity plates and a Stars and Bars silk-screened on the back windshield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Against the Rebel Flag | 4/14/1990 | See Source »

...Little Boy atom bomb. Back in the bomb bay work is going on to reconstruct the single hook used to suspend and release the bomb. A normal double hook for bombs was abandoned by the mission planners, who feared, if one malfunctioned, the armed bomb might dangle in the rack like hell on a tether. You remember the day 44 years ago on a college campus when the news came of the Enola Gay's successful drop and the public dawning of the nuclear age, how you sat up most of the summer night talking and wondering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silver Hill, Maryland: A Flight Down Memory Lane | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...second period Kierstead escaped to rack up a point, but Guciardo did the same in the third period, and the match ended...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Grapplers Mauled by Big Red | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

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