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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." Nobody could say Steinberg was a particularly warm or approachable person. He loathed mediocrity and made no secret of it. He simply knew too much, and in his death he took that knowledge with him. He had no equals. Now he has no successors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fine, Indecipherable Flourishes: SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999) | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...tragedy and thought this would be a way to show their support and help with the healing. But I feel your article pointed a finger at our children and put the blame on athletes, hockey kids, preppies, cheerleaders, etc., for the actions of the two individuals who snapped and took innocent lives. I wish you would have been more sympathetic to our children and not printed a picture of my son above an article that blames cliques for this emotional time. My son is a caring athlete with a huge heart who has been deeply affected by this situation. NAME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 24, 1999 | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...Serbs' Federal Directorate of Supply and Procurement, a hub of Serbian weapons buying and development. He even had its address. "But you can't program bombs by street addresses," a U.S. intelligence official says. "We had to give the Pentagon geo-coordinates." The first mistake occurred when the CIA took the right address and thumbtacked it to the wrong building on a Pentagon-drafted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Embassy Bombing: Small Steps to a Big Disaster | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

Other than her friend and employer, Katharine Graham, she was the most powerful woman in Washington, yet she never flaunted her power or made a big deal of her womanhood. She simply took her work responsibly, with deep fair-mindedness. How she loved the news! Meg lived alone, and in a way the news was her family. Journalism offered a chance to apply something outside the news to the news. She was saved from the corrosive boredom that ruins other journalists by her knowledge of English literature. In her 50s she took up Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: MEG GREENFIELD | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

BRAIN FOOD It may sound implausible, but researchers think a type of fat in fish--known as omega-3 fatty acids--could help people with manic depression. A preliminary report shows that patients who for four months took daily pills containing 10,000 mg of omega-3s (that's about five salmon steaks' worth) were twice as likely to go into remission as those on a placebo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: May 24, 1999 | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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