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Word: twos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Company, 16th Infantry Regiment, who was the first officer to bring his shattered unit to the ridge above Omaha. Dawson used his native sense and energy to bring order and purpose out of chaos and confound the disciplined Nazi machine. D-day was a battle won by ones and twos and struggling gaggles of men who came out of the sea and moved inexorably up the small trails to defy Hitler's belief that they were too soft and self- indulgent to defeat his supermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Brave at Heart | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

...sense of connection with other human beings, near and far, is at once our most destructive and most redemptive condition. Taking on other people's problems exacerbates one's own; ignoring them leaves one spiritually dead. The doctor theorizes that people do not get sick alone, but in twos and threes and fours -- and more. That has happened to Sylvia Gellburg and to the world collapsing around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Sylvia Suffers | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...rain forest, having opted out of Lamaze class and changing diapers. He may come back, but the show's premise is built around the notion that a woman who has made it in a man's world without one should be lionized for doing so alone through the "terrible twos" and beyond. The lack of a dad is not accidental but a running-joke opportunity. For the successful, glamorous woman who has everything: Now, live from Hollywood, your very own baby, father optional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Quayle Has Half a Point | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...list of numbers ostensibly related to JFK's academic record at Choate. It does not take a math concentrator to see the pattern: "two ... two ... 65 ... 110." Drop the zero from 110 and you have 11. Put two and two together to get 22. Subtract one of the twos from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grunwald Did Not Act Alone | 1/24/1992 | See Source »

...near San Diego, the blank billboard attracted no attention until some passersby claimed they saw a face in the shadows caused by the light fixtures. The face, they swore, was that of Laura Arroyo, 9, a local girl who was abducted and murdered last month. Gawkers began gathering in twos and threes, then in ever larger throngs. One evening last week, an estimated 25,000 assembled amid ice-cream and food vendors, causing a two-mile-long traffic jam. One hustling entrepreneur took over a vacant lot and charged $3 a car for parking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions: Miraculous Perception | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

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