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Word: slumbers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sleepy sensuality of the young Robert Mitchum - a narcoleptic dreamboat quality that suggests a sleek predator roused from slumber by a poke through his cage. So when Benicio Del Toro got a call around noon Los Angeles time a few weeks ago to be told that he'd won the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Supporting Actor prize for his performance as a Mexican narc in "Traffic," the 33-year-old emitted something like a growl. The new lion of Hollywood is a late sleeper and, he says, "I'm not a happy camper when I get woken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Boffo Actors Worth Checking Out | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...when the slumber of the holidays is over and we wake up in January 2001, America will have a new president, a fascinating new political scene and four years before it has to worry about holding another presidential election. Chad jokes will be so 2000, and Congress will be busy enough just trying to act civilized without giving an inch to the enemy across the aisle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Year's Voting Resolution? | 12/24/2000 | See Source »

...there fear of a coming recession? Reflect on the magically ominous 25:33-4 - "Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth; and thy want as an armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Proverbs vs. 'Hardball' | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...dorkiest slumber party ever, if you don't include that show on Oxygen. No one was allowed to go home until the election was decided. There was a special menu posted in the hall - and the 2 a.m. cold buffet included lemon squares and jumbles! Despite the fact that we received new exit polls every one and a half hours, overexcited managing editor Walter Isaacson asked that updates be e-mailed to the staff every half an hour. People were gathered in the hall, excitedly whispering about faithless electors. My coworkers were clearly getting turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Comes to Chelsea | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...doctor put Karen through a battery of blood tests to rule out ovarian tumors (which can force glands to churn out puberty-triggering hormones). But there was no apparent medical problem, and by age 8, Karen had full pubic growth. "We didn't allow her to go to any slumber parties," says Stover. "Or to change bathing suits in front of other children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teens Before Their Time | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

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