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Word: twitched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threat of conquest. In coping with that challenge, the country and its 14.5 million inhabitants find themselves poised on the sword edge of change. The modernization and enrichment of Saudi life produced by the oil- price boom of the 1970s and '80s may one day look like a mere twitch compared with the convulsions to come. "This impact will be greater," says a senior adviser to the Saudi government. "These changes won't just break the crockery but the furniture and the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Lifting The Veil | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Rowers describe Parker as cerebral and enigmatic. While on the water, Parker will slowly cruise behind his boats, carefully watching the twitch of every blade as it is slipped into the water. But only in a while will he raise a battered crimson megaphone to his mouth to murmur something...

Author: By Rik Geiersbach, | Title: Behind the Click, Click of the Oarlocks, He Watches... | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

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