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Word: thonged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall for pretty faces, women fall for healthy portfolios? Here's another object lesson sometimes drawn from the evolutionary allegory of Monica and Bill: men go for ample breasts and buttocks accessorized with thong underwear, while women are attracted to power and money, even when it comes in a chubby, gray-haired middle-aged package. True, there are more cases like ex-Playmate Anna Nicole Smith and her late, wheelchair-bound millionaire husband than there are like elementary school teacher Mary Letourneau and her 13-year-old boyfriend. But since men tend to accrue wealth and power as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Truth About The Female Body | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...Margaret Carlson! Your piece on Monica was right on. No doubt the "big fish" took the bait on the line. In this fishing trip, the lure being offered was thong underwear. LISA HOWARD Perkasie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 8, 1999 | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...spirited appearance on a float, shimmying and waving enthusiastically at fans. British papers have reported that Jagger, 55, has offered Morad, 29, a tidy sum to refuse interviews. But apparently he never said anything about semiclad public appearances. Hey, when you hail from the country that invented the thong, immodesty is your birthright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 1, 1999 | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...black hair, a fashion statement and silence. Unlike her pursuers on Capitol Hill, who brake for cameras, she plows determinedly through the crowd--never a comment, never a pose, never a clue. This encourages others to cast her in whatever role suits their favorite story line: starstruck ingenue, thong-flashing temptress, duplicitous home wrecker, innocent victim, Vanity Fair vamp or troubled product of a broken home in need of ministering, the kind only a President can give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monica Lewinsky, We Hardly Knew You | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

MONICA Lewinsky is likable, loyal and forgiving. And Victoria's Secret show makes thong mainstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 15, 1999 | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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