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Word: rolled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rock 'n' roll is] the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...next day we're off, Varadero to Cienfuegos. First passengers, from a roadside crowd of 15 or 20: a mother-and-child duo, the mother skinny and snaggle-toothed, the baby perfect and in pink, 11 months old, little black shoes, shiny; they're headed home. We roll with them past horse-drawn wagons and slow, lanky cows. Egrets skim over the road, perpendicular. Air warm, sky overcast. The car screams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...morning, on the way to the town of Trinidad, it's all rolling hills and farms, and the people have been waiting for us. At an intersection 10 miles out of Cienfuegos we stop at a gathering of 20 or so, mostly young men, some in uniform. One gets in, followed by a woman, running--she's just jumped out of another car and into ours. Her name is Maela and, like the vast majority of Cuban women, Maela is a devout spandex enthusiast. She's in a black-and-white bodysuit, bisected with belt, and she's laughing like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Spare a thought for the thousands of FBI and security officials who guard the United States from terrorism. Not only will they spend New Year's Eve stone-cold sober and ready to roll at the chime of a beeper; the next day, and the next and the day after that they'll find themselves on point in a war that's hard to fight, let alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America: A Nation on Full Alert | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...doesn't cut it, especially given the speculation that Ressam was a decoy for others smuggling explosives to different parts of the country. At this point, for all anyone knows, Ressam was acting alone and had no designs on a millennial blowout (or blowup), but until the double zeroes roll around, all American eyes will be looking north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heat's on Canada to Crack Terror Cell | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

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