Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like powder after a shower? Save it for your feet. Research suggests that applying powder or deodorant spray to the genital area can increase a woman's risk of OVARIAN CANCER. The worst offender: the sprays, which may up the odds...
...under the shouts. Noises never heard before, torn from my father's mouth. Then silence. My mother had been sewing a button on my shirt. She kept her buttons in a chipped saucer. I heard the rim of the saucer in circles on the floor. I heard the spray of buttons, little white teeth...
DIED. A. RICHARDSON GOODLATTE, 57, New York City's successful anti-subway graffiti warrior; of cancer; in Huntington, New York. Their work scrubbed out as soon as they scribbled, graffitists threw in the spray...
...Ryutaro Hashimoto had asked the Peruvian government "not to go too far. Not thinking of the hostages' mental state may have an adverse effect." But such words of pathos seemed to hold sway neither over the police nor the rebels inside, who once again warned police away with a spray of gunfire. A bullet hit one of the carriers, but no injuries were reported; the commandos, defiant, returned for another march a half-hour later. Rebels, still holding 72 hostages, accuse police of deliberately trying to provoke a fight as an excuse to storm the compound. Though Peru has reaffirmed...
...born physicist. Anticipating the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens by nearly two centuries, he propounds the law of wave motion, suggesting that it is water's "percussive" force rather than water itself that is moving. Sketching a water drop splattering on a flat surface, he catches its precise, crownlike spray in a stop-action image that was not verified until Harold Edgerton's high-speed photography at M.I.T. Impressive too are his moral sensibilities. He mentions that he has invented an underwater breathing device, then notes that divers could use it to sneak up on enemy ships and sink them...