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Word: soaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Disinter the shirt and soak it for three hours in a solution of diluted bleach. Do not agitate the water or remove caked...

Author: By F.g. Tilney, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Ready Prep? Go! | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...Disinter the shirt and soak it for three hours in a solution of diluted bleach. Do not agitate the water or remove caked...

Author: By F. G. Tilney, | Title: Ready Prep GO! | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...experiences, somewhere between theater and sin. Thick swaddling robes, mineral water and wine, gourmet buffets, fresh flowers and piped-in music are typical features. In Las Vegas, Canyon Ranch has opened a 61,000-sq.-ft. day spa--the largest in the country--at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino. Soak and get an underwater massage in a private pool filled with flowers, or stay dry and pick one of the 18 other options, like the Balinese or Indian oil rubs. For the piece de resistance, visitors soon will be able to steam and swathe themselves in mud in a room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day at the Spa | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...photo-op doesn?t hold the charm it once did) and the United Auto Workers both dissented, calling Sweeney?s dictum "a sod job" and citing southern-fried wisdom about weighing one?s pig before wrapping it. Which hardly means they were Bradley backers ? just that they wanted to soak Gore for a few more concessions before climbing aboard. In fact, what impressed Branegan was how quietly ?- and quickly ? the rest of the AFL-CIO went along. "It seems to be a very enlightened group," he says. "Both Bradley and Gore are free-traders ? Gore?s biggest moment was defending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was a Struggle, but Gore Gets Big Labor | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...norms about what is normal keep changing. Many parents don't think twice about straightening their kids' crooked teeth but stop short of fixing a crooked nose, and yet, in just the past seven years, plastic surgery performed on teens has doubled. As for intellectual advantages, parents soak their babies in Mozart with dubious effect, put a toy computer in the crib, elbow their way into the best preschools to speed them on their path to Harvard. Infertile couples advertise for an egg donor in the Yale Daily News, while entrepreneurs sold the sperm of Nobel laureates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If We Have It, Do We Use It? | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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