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Word: stilettoed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that G.O.P. presumptive nominee Senator John McCain will wield the Pentagon's 66-page report as a bludgeon against those asserting the war has stalled and that U.S. troops should be withdrawn. Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic contender, will just as certainly use the GAO report as a stiletto to puncture the Administration's - and McCain's - contention that the troop "surge" is bringing victory in Iraq closer by the day. "Iraq has made considerable progress in the political and diplomatic arenas, but future progress may be slow and uneven," the Pentagon report concluded. "Moreover, Iraq is pursuing this endeavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Through the Looking Glass(es) | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

...Avenue, literally stopping traffic. Near the front of the line of rejectees, according to the New York Daily News, were two women from Vancouver, B.C., who had paid $16,000 for the trip to New York (they must have driven here) and were dolled up in designer dresses and stiletto heels. You should have realized, ladies, that those things can be used as weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the City: Kinda Into You | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...tough footwear as its own form of armor. The style has proved an able antidote to a flowery dress for Sarah Jessica Parker and helped Mary-Kate Olsen bring the sky-high look of a miniskirt back down to earth. With many of the modern incarnations featuring weapon-like stiletto heels, they just may be better suited for combat than the originals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Revival | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...males’ Mt. Auburn mansions are prime locations for undergraduates to procure liquor and dance to the latest techno single, boys’ rules go. This places an uneven level of control in the hands of the final clubs’ male members—socially anxious stiletto-clad girls forge friendships with an arbitrary group of polo-clad boys so that they might gain entrance across the threshold of the Spee Club one or another Friday night. Because women’s clubs often hold their parties and punch events in male clubs, even members of female final...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Trading Spaces | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

HANKS Oh, yeah. That's one of the rules of cinema. It goes along with anybody who's coming back from the grocery store has to have straws of celery pointing out of the bag. Any hot chick getting into a hot tub must be wearing some stiletto heels. It's just good art direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking History | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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