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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...door of the office swung open, I saw Kennedy behind his desk with a dark face reading TIME. "Where'd you get this story about me posing for the cover of Gentlemen's Quarterly? It's all a lie." I really did not know anything about the story, I stammered, but would find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1960-1973 Revolution: Witness: Hugh Sidey | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...roadblock. I couldn't get around it. I went into a U-turn, but my car stalled and they came running at me. I heard them scream, 'Honky!' I got the car into gear and knocked them out of the way. I heard gunfire. I saw a police officer and I screamed, 'What should I do?' He said, 'I've been shot at all night. Do what you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1973-1980 Limits | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Witnessed Miami Herald Reporter Earni Young: "A late-model green car--I think it might have been a Chevrolet Impala--deliberately drove over one of the bodies. I think I saw it rip the man's arm off. The crowd cheered and yelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1973-1980 Limits | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...economy revived, but an outsize share of the benefit seemed to flow to Wall Street. Mergers proliferated wildly, mostly, it seemed, for the enrichment of a few financial manipulators--novelist Tom Wolfe's Masters of the Universe. Moralists bemoaned what they saw as a sanctification of greed--not only in the U.S. but also in Margaret Thatcher's Britain, Helmut Kohl's West Germany and, of all places, Red China. But unlike in the irrationally exuberant 1920s, disaster did not strike. Though stocks fell even faster on Oct. 19, 1987, than they had in 1929, they bounced back higher than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1980-1989 Comeback: A Tectonic Shift | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...Terry Lenzner acknowledged that his detective agency was indeed working for Clinton's lawyers and told the Washington Post that he found "nothing inappropriate" about investigating the prosecutors. So McCurry was left to reconcile a contradiction not even of his own making. When his colleagues on the communications team saw him emerge from the roomful of reporters "rocked, beat up," as a co-worker put it, they were furious on his behalf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught In The Town's Most Thankless Job | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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