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Word: touchingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lundy's knowledge of sea lore and history is rich, his pace perfect, his intelligence full of energy. He differentiates each sailor with a novelist's touch. When Frenchman Raphael Dinelli's Algimouss capsized in a storm in the Southern Ocean, he managed to get on top of the inverted hull and cling there. The story of his rescue by his English competitor Pete Goss--who bravely turned back into the teeth of a force-10 gale and beat to windward until he located Dinelli--is one of those anecdotes of miracle that can be enacted only in an intense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Captains Courageous | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...mean, like, "I-have-great-breasts-come-touch-them-feel-them." I feel very uncomfortable about my body, so I was trying to brush that off with sarcasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michelle Williams | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...quote I'll use is, "I have great breasts. Come touch them. Feel them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michelle Williams | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...screamed for Nixon's resignation. Nixon wanted to talk about inflation and the U.S. economy. Ford stared across the Cabinet table in wonder at this odd tableau. "The 'smoking gun' tape was out--the country was up in arms about it," recounted Ford. "Nixon was just plain out of touch, and his mind off there somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ford File and Its Surprises | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

Until a Colorado grand jury indicted them for racketeering, JAMES and REGANA RAPP ran a $1.5 million-a-year business dredging up and selling confidential data on celebrities. BRUCE WILLIS, CALISTA FLOCKHART, JOHN and PATSY RAMSEY and even the Columbine victims were marks for the couple's Touch Tone Information Acquisition, based in suburban Denver. The Rapps, according to authorities, assumed a variety of false identities to filch bank, phone, credit-card and stock-transaction records. Now investigators are seeking to zero in on the end users of the information, who are believed to be news media, prominent among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racketeering: Tattletale Probe Widens To Tabloids and Banks | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

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