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Word: soaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their best, the Cowboy Junkies seem to embody their name perfectly. They make people feel like they need to listen, and the capacity crowd at Avalon could be seen straining to soak in the Junkies' painfully beautiful songs...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: All About Margo | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...essentially passive experience. Performers make the sound, consumers devour it. For every pop generation from A to X, the big creative decision has been which record (cassette, CD) to put in the music machine. For radio listeners, even that decision is denied. Music is too easy: a hot soak in somebody else's bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Goes Interactive | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

After making some complusory opening remarks and introducing the film, Jones leaves the theater allowing the audience to soak up what is being billed as the final installment in Stone's Vietnam trilogy ("Platoon," "Born on the Fourth of July"). Based on the autobiographical memoirs of Le Ly Haslip, the movie chronicles the harrowing odyssey of a Vietnamese woman as she trades her war-torn homeland for an alien America. Jones, who plays Sgt. Steve Butler, Le Ly's jaded and abusive G.I. husband, says the film is "not about war, but more about the soul." The movie, which...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: The Year of Tommy Lee Jones | 12/16/1993 | See Source »

...common," said a detective on the narcotics unit at the Cambridge Police Department. "They cut it open and fill it up with marijuana then soak it in alcohol...It lasts longer and it hides the smell of marijuana, but when you see a 14-year-old kid smoking a cigar, you know something...

Author: By John Wagley, | Title: Marijuana-Laced Cigars in Vogue | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Sports franchises are like sponges which soak up disposable income from all parts of a city and collect in all in a very small area, often hurting small business from other parts of the city...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Sporting Follies | 10/16/1993 | See Source »

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