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Word: slugs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michelle Morgan, 22, a part-time worker who stands beside Bray, agrees. "Now I hear they're trying to make a moth or slug an endangered species," she says. "How can that be? How can a moth be an endangered species...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: The Killing Fields | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

Half a cup of instant coffee. Then a cigarette. Then, let's see, yeah, here's half a can of Coke left on the table, room temperature, no more fizz. Slug of Coke, swallow of whiskey, same again. Breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Pine | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

Those who know me will testify that a good joke can launch me into giggle fits; a valentine can set me weeping; nearly any episode of The Simpsons can do both. So I am no emotional slug. When I enter a movie theater, I bring high spirits and modest needs. I merely say, as Clint Eastwood might, "Go ahead. Make me laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead. Make Me Laugh | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

Half a game shy of first place, the Harvard men's baseball team dives head first into a critical, four-game weekend this weekend at Soldier's Field. The Crimson (13-14 overall) hosts Yale in a doubleheader today, and will slug it out against Columbia tomorrow...

Author: By Katy Schmid, | Title: Batsmen Face Elis, Lions | 4/27/1991 | See Source »

...Grifters is the gem -- small, cold, bright, brilliantly crafted. The movie traces the slug tracks of three con artists who play their deadliest tricks on one another. Roy Dillon (John Cusack) works the "short con," using loaded dice and legerdemain to skin cashiers and sailors. Roy's girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening) is cheaper, perkier, ever ready to try the "long con" -- the elaborate scheme that takes suckers for big stakes. Roy's mother Lilly (Anjelica Huston) is the con woman supreme. Abused and abusing since girlhood, she can stand up to her sadistic boss or pull off a motel-room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

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