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Word: slicings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When it does go public, the new entity will offer 20 percent of itself, a slice plenty small enough to keep investors rabid and demand high. No word yet on the price. For the parent Barnes & Noble, though, the jettison is already paying off. Upon hearing the announcement, investors promptly bid the company's stock up $4 to $41.25 in morning trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barnes & Noble.com: On Its Own | 8/20/1998 | See Source »

...Frisbee with a stick," she'll say. Not so. It was a broom. The batter, standing in front of an old barn in the backyard, tried to hit the Frisbee with a broom--no cinch, I can attest, when the pitcher's repertoire included an effective slice ball. Imaginary base runners advanced according to a formula having to do with logarithms. After that, the rules got complicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Game of Frizzball | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...climactic scene is a game for the Frizzball Championship of the World--which is, by chance, what we called all our games. The batter resembles me. The pitch is a slice ball. I hit it to the second garbage can--a 7.3-run homer. The game is won. I glance up to see my wife in the stands (well, all right, the backyard). She has been caught up in the excitement of the game. She is cheering wildly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Game of Frizzball | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...long stretch of time, there was virtually no design difference between the RV and a kitchen appliance. Remember those silver boxes lumbering down the highway like two-slice toasters? They've got them here. They also have a little Ralph Kramden affair, from 1964, called the Coachmen Cadet. We mention this because the Coachmen story is the lemonade stand all over again, which is why founder Tom Corson's photo is one of the 185 black-and-white mugs hanging in the RV Hall of Fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings From America's Secret Capitals | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...That could only have happened because of theWorld Cup," he says. "The fans from each countrybring with them not only their soccer teams butalso a slice of their culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Prepares for Soccer Final in Paris | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

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