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Word: turnip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daddy's money, her mamma's good looks," but that alone isn't enough to make her the "deadly combination" she is: she's also got a "wild imagination [and] a college education." Just to clarify, fun-loving, well-educated women are still "country as a turnip green...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: A Cowboy's Kind of Girl | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

...following evening, reunited in their snug Star City quarters, Larissa Tsibliyev watched mournfully as her husband slowly ladled turnip puree onto his dinner plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE AFTER MIR | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...CHEESE Most of us should get 1,000 mg of calcium a day rather than 800, says a nutrition panel. That's about four servings of calcium-rich foods like cheese, milk, yogurt--or turnip greens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 25, 1997 | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...hatted American counterparts on the congruent poster. Another work in the room focuses on conspiritorial links within the League of Nations between the capitalist nations to destroy the Soviet "threat." Yet a more extreme print reworks a Russian fairy tale about evil people (fat capitalists) attempting to uproot a turnip (a national symbol), whereupon the turnip rises to the occassion and blows the bastards out of the country...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: GETTING FOGGY | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

...defining memory of Halloween is gazing out at a turnip skull with its blazing blue bottle eyes," he says. "I was terrified by my own creation...

Author: By Angela C. Walch, | Title: Memories Kindle Halloween Spirits | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

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