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Word: tucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sitting through an evening in that tight, boned bodice takes guts, because, unless you stay upright and regal, the bones stick like fish knives into your midriff. All Di must learn to watch, which the TV cameras noticed, is the ounce or two of puppy fat which boned bodices tuck under a girl's arms. But you can't have too much of as good a thing as Lady Diana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Shy Di Makes a Daring Debut | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...women's swim team hits the water for the Ivy League championships on Friday, looking to finish third, behind the nip-and-tuck first place battle between Princeton and Brown. Brown may have the advantage as the Bruins will host the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. on Tap For Icewomen | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...Milwaukee, the Journal started printing a special eight-page wraparound section moments before the planes carrying the hostages to freedom took off from Tehran. The special sold an extra 45,000 over the normal press run of 320,000. Says Assistant Managing Editor George Lockwood: "It was nip and tuck at the end. There were butterflies in our stomachs." Newspapers in the U.S. and Europe generally gave the hostage story top billing over the Inauguration, but the New York Times led with Reagan's swearing-in. Said Times News Editor Allan Siegal: "In terms of real importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: We'd Better Be Ready | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...there is more. Care for the afflicted? Quadriplegics may some day use spoken commands to order robot servants to do their bidding. Other designers are working on a robot that could gently lift up a bedridden patient, while a nurse changes his sheets, and tuck him back into bed. M.I.T. Computer Scientist Marvin Minsky visualizes a day, about 20 or 25 years from now, when a surgeon will be able to slip on a pair of special gloves connected by remote control to a pair of mechanical hands that can perform surgery for him in a hospital hundreds of miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

Parry said he expects most orders will be for friends, "since no one wants to say 'Come tuck...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Bedtime Service | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

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