Word: twin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vermont skiers Trond Nystad, Aki Partanen and Camut Nystad (Twin brother of Trond) finished one, two, three in the men's classical...
...Little Bird whizzed by, its guns blazing, Bray felt dozens of hot projectiles * striking his body. "I thought I'd had it," he recalled. It took Bray several seconds to realize it was not bullets raining down on him but the brass casings pouring out of the chopper's twin Gatling guns...
...Virginia Woolf Effect has a twin. Men were similarly encouraged to overvalue and romanticize women. Women now profess to find that sort of idealization stultifying and ultimately imprisoning. Would so much be lost if each sex mirrored the other at twice the real size and stature...
...overwhelming majority of American colleges and universities, fulfilling these twin pledges--however desirable in theory--is in fact an economic impossibility," Rudenstine says...
...like a slap in the face--stinging-hot but strangely cool. Its power lies in the bowling ball idea. Not really an "image" because it's more tactile than visual, it is a simile so original, massive, and vivid that it forces you to touch what shocks you. The twin holes of the bowling ball suggest the dichotomy between good and evil, sex and love, shit and "shit." The reader senses bitterness and self-recrimination amidst unrepentant profanity...