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Word: specks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mosquito, it seems, is essentially a tiny winged speck of libido. Here's what typically happens: the males form a hovering globular swarm, ranging from a softball-size band of a dozen to a ballroom-size throng of millions. To any female that may be around, the male buzzing sound is like a neon sign in front of a singles bar. She makes a beeline -- all right, a mosquitoline -- straight into the swarm. Once she's inside, the sound of her wings, beating 250 to 500 times a second, becomes the mosquito equivalent of a flirty hair flip. The males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer's Bloodsuckers | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...Mass. Ave. branch of the ice cream chain that created flavors like sombrero and vanilla bean speck closed last Friday, to be replaced by an Ultimate Bagel Company store...

Author: By Jeremy A. Dauber, | Title: From Butter Pecan To Buttered Bagels | 11/7/1991 | See Source »

Washington Post staff writer Juan Williams's characterization of the sexual harassment accusation as a "speck of mud" flung at Thomas misses the point. He characterized the alleged exchange between Thomas and Hill as a "sexual conversation between two adults...

Author: By Jennifer Griffin, | Title: An Insensitive Senate | 10/15/1991 | See Source »

...runway, that serve as a photo intelligence center. Specialists wearing white gloves bend over light tables and peer through loupes to examine miles of black-and-white film as it rolls by. Most of the film is a dead gray wash -- desert sand -- but occasionally a white speck or a cluster of dark dots appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battlefront: Combat In the Sand | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...propped up an unpopular Communist regime for more than four decades and were notorious for their disregard of privacy and occasional beatings of prisoners, Dieter cannot understand why so much loathing is aimed his way. He insists he was only a maintenance man in a Stasi center, a mere speck in an elaborate organization that not only offered full-time employment to 85,000 people but also provided pocket money to a network of 109,000 citizens who snooped on their neighbors and co-workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dieter: A Former Spy's Story | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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