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Word: turned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that, I told the patient secretary at the Public Works Department, was why I had called. I wanted them to build a stairway into the hillside that would turn a questionable shortcut into a user-friendly thoroughfare, and I was wondering who had control over that sort of decision. She told me that all the bridges in the state were owned by the Massachusetts Highway Department, especially one on the Alewife Brook Parkway, which moonlights as State Route...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Technicolor Dreams and Hillside Blues | 2/20/1998 | See Source »

...several sexy women. The text running along the bottom of the ad told me that the man who reads Playboy jets off on weekend get-aways. He drops a lots of money on cars, clothes and cuisine. The handsome "Playboy gentleman" had a James Bond quality I couldn't turn down. Of course, I desperately wanted to be that Playboy gentleman and to have a gentleman's living quarters. I think I also wanted a subscription to Playboy...

Author: By Jonathan S. Paul, | Title: Interior Design: Heavenly Inspiration | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

Harvard is stressful--stressful enough to turn smooth shoulder muscles into knots the size of golf balls. In order to avoid becoming a walking advertisement for the PGA Tour, some students have decided to action, meeting on six Wednesday nights beginning in late February...

Author: By Lynda A. Yast, | Title: Knead to Relax? | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...would be if women would give some sort of signal to tell you "I am angry and no amount of detective work will get me to reveal why. Keep me at bay with a fireplace poker until you can get close enough to the door to leave." Men, in turn, should give some sort of clear signal when others are talking about relationships and they are actually trying to reconstruct the plot of an episode of Baywatch ("Hobie falls in a well") in their head. On the whole, International Signs make the world a better place. Remember that the next...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: The Universal Language | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

...Keeping Up With the Joneses As the President continues skirmishing over the Lewinsky scandal, his lawyers turn their guns on Paula Jones. Their object: to get her suit thrown out of court. Special: Scandal In the Oval Office

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

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