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Word: thins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hillary Clinton. Next year she is planning to tour in a new piece, Points of Re-Entry, about the ways women mutilate their bodies to satisfy cultural norms, from Thai women who wear heavy metal braces to elongate their necks to American teens who starve themselves to stay thin. She visited Oklahoma City after the bombing of the federal building ("Timothy McVeigh to me is a fascinating character") and spent 10 days last summer in Kosovo gathering stories about women's experiences during the war ("I came back and just cried for a week"). This is not a woman short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Necessary Targets | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...quick double off the bat of Gerald Williams knocked the first string loose. A sacrifice moved the winning run over to third, leaving Rogers unraveling faster than the plot of a Very Special "Blossom." Kenny was hanging by a thin strand--the Metropolitans were a mere 90 feet away from a very long winter...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stairway to Kevin: Stick to Chicken and Country Music | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...Funk, for one, says that marketing plan is wearing thin...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Garment District: Heaven in a Pile of Clothes at Cambridge's Vintage Mart | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...Rather than working with many and be spread thin, Microsoft decided to work with one university at a much more engaged level than before," the spokesperson wrote...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard and MIT Face Off For Technology Funding | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...dawn on his vacation, Lee Peachey climbed a hill in the Ecuadorian cloud forest and unfolded thin nets strung between bamboo poles. When birds, often Amazilia hummingbirds or gray-breasted wood wrens, flew into the nets, he patiently untangled them and, with sweat pouring down his face and into his glasses, carried them down a steep path to a work station below. There he and his wife Helen or one of their three teammates on an Earthwatch expedition recorded the birds' size, type and condition, took blood samples and made sure they were banded before setting them free. At dusk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Lend a Helping Hand | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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