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Word: tip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, most of you would probably think twice before spending $40 ($46, with a 15 percent tip) on your hair, especially when you could walk a few blocks and pay one-fourth as much. But Diego's has an ethos to match its costiliness, making their haircuts a very different experience from listening to Jerry ramble for 20 minutes...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Risky Hipness at the Salon | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

Marie instructed me to use Prell shampoo to remove artificial colorants from my hair, a surprising breach with canonical styling tips. Every five minutes she said, "This is going to look really cute. I'm excited." I would respond, "Yes, so am I." Marie and I achieved a harmony that is rare in interpersonal relationships. I felt that she cared about me and wanted the best for me, and was looking forward to cutting my hair again some time in the near future, and I gave her a big tip...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Risky Hipness at the Salon | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...nothing is a greater threat to baseball as we know it than the newly proposed playoff system. The owners like it--which should already tip us off to trouble ahead. If baseball is Americana, this new system is like the former Soviet Union. It's backward, and it's likely to cause more harm than good...

Author: By James W. Fields, | Title: Tinkering With America's Game | 9/24/1993 | See Source »

Teriyaki Beef Tips: In one entree you have foreign intrigue, red-blooded vitality, and refinement. As if this were not enough, there is the mystery surrounding beef tips. What exactly are beef tips? Where is the tip of a cow? The nose, the tail? Or are "beef tips" meat from cows who have been tipped? Does this long-maligned practice actually produce a delicacy...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Lunchtime Tips | 9/23/1993 | See Source »

...noted that, as the hour grew late on the night of the vote, first-term members were yanked into the cloakroom--and emerged white as sheets. Margolies-Mezvinsky was the last lamb to be sacrificed; that was merely bad luck. If there had been one more Republican representative to tip the scales, the final Democrat might have been someone else...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: `New Democrats' And Other Tall Tales | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

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