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Word: thumbings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Samsung A600 Phone If you prefer the mobile-phone version of electronic football to Madden 2004, this camera phone's Game Pad will give you a two-thumb advantage. sprintpcs.com ($390 with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Gear 2003: Best Gear | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...wrote in his autobiography. Instead, the French fireman, then 19, was wrenched back to life again and again by doctors, machines and good intentions. After nine months in a coma and 15 more as a mute, nearly blind quadriplegic (he wrote his memoir by using small movements of one thumb), Humbert pleaded with his mother - and President Jacques Chirac - to help him die. On Sept. 26, he got his wish, and France exhaled a sad sigh of relief. Now the nation is again holding its breath. Humbert's mother awaits indictment for attempted poisoning, punishable by up to five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Debate Won't Die | 11/16/2003 | See Source »

...upshot is probably the most useful tool for shoppers, scholars and bibliophiles ever invented. In fact, there's no reason why you can't use the service to search books you already have on your shelves. No matter how fast you try to thumb to and from the index pages, Amazon's computers can do it faster. Now you know how Garry Kasparov felt when he was beaten by a chess program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Google Your Books | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...from airports on his way to make speeches on behalf of the nuclear freeze movement. The overriding purpose of these phone calls was to get his dressing into a bottle, a bottle bearing the Newman's Own name on a proper label, a bottle that would allow us to thumb our noses at the naysayers. Paul had always been perverse about complacency. It was his theory that he had to keep things off balance or it's finito. That's why he took up racing cars when they said, Not when you're 47 years old, you out of your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Newman's Own Story | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...allowed users to book flights via i-mode (a service providing pared-down Internet access via mobile phone in Japan) since 1999. The AirAsia SMS system might soon become just as routine. Since its inception at the end of August, more than 8,000 seats have been booked by thumb. Whether they were all reserved by fleeing husbands is anyone's guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dossier | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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