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Word: sprayings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...north of Pearl Harbor. The six carriers turned east into a brisk wind and increased speed to 24 knots. Nagumo's flagship was flying the celebrated Z pennant that Admiral Togo had flown at Tsushima in 1905. The flight decks tilted more than 10 degrees, and the wind whipped spray over them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

Some students could also be allergic to the anti-ant spray, and Finn's reading of society is pretty accurate...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Anti-Ant PB&J | 11/20/1991 | See Source »

These same people now extend that principle (as they see it) to defend Jeffries' right to advocate racist theories in the classroom and issue death threats to members of the press, and the Yale student's First Amendment right to spray-paint a swastika on another's door...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Some Actions Are Not Free Speech | 11/16/1991 | See Source »

...unusually malicious nature of the crime also points to an anti-Semitic motive. While the vandals left the sukkah structurally unsound, they gave no warning signals. There were no scrawled slogans, no spray-painted swastikas. There was not even any damage to the cloth walls or the bamboo roof. Such damage would have been easier to do, and would have sent a clear expression of hatred...

Author: By Lori E. Fein, | Title: An Act of Racism | 10/3/1991 | See Source »

With the floral White Diamonds competing against Estee Lauder's spicy SpellBound and Calvin Klein's fruity Escape, there will be no escaping the coming onslaught on the American nose. More than 70 million fragrance strips have been bound into magazines, and in department stores spray-happy models are out in force. This month's Elle arrived for 14,000 upscale subscribers looking like a bulbous videocassette -- which in fact it was. Lauder had pouched its TV promo for SpellBound in a sort of marsupial setup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fragrances The War of the Noses | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

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