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Word: uprighteous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 75 years of digging in the ancient, arid sediments of East Africa has told scientists a great deal about the long evolutionary trail that led to modern human beings. They know about Lucy, the upright-walking proto-human australopithecine that strode the continent some 3.2 million years ago; about Homo habilis, the first known human species, which was making and using stone tools in the same region by 1.2 million years later; about Homo erectus, which emerged from Africa soon thereafter and spread across the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Butcher | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...those battery-powered gadgets with high-resolution screens that can hold thousands of pages of best-selling text. I have always been a Princess and the Pea kind of sleeper. The slightest noise--even the sound of a page being turned--is enough to make me sit bolt upright, as if a torpedo had just slammed into the powder room. E-books are noiseless. Also, since they are backlit, your bedmate can read them in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Book Report | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

With the public thus fooled, and with his image on the media's A-list, Strawberry could have rent his strings and made himself whole again. He was finally in a position to define himself--the special magic of media spin doctors does not work on an honest and upright...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Darryl, A Hero Made of Straw | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

With the public thus fooled, and with his image on the media's A-list, Strawberry could have rent his strings and made himself whole again. He was finally in a position to define himself--the special magic of media spin doctors does not work on an honest and upright...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Greene Line: Darryl, A Hero Made of Straw | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...absence of the husband conveniently opens the door for the infidelity of the wife, a pattern that plays out to perfection when Pearl becomes involved with an enigmatic blouse-seller named Walker (Viggo Mortensen), a drifter who epitomizes the care-free existence of that generation. Pearl's regression from upright mother and wife to liberated--and thus irresponsible--woman is contrasted by the simultaneous coming of age of her daughter (Anna Paquin...

Author: By Richard Ho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Back to Woodstock | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

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