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Word: vesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elvis's "Return to Sender." He laughs and sticks the prop back in his pocket. Beth jumps up and runs down the steps to say goodbye to some preppy kids who are leaving for the day. She hugs them; they hug back, gingerly, avoiding the spikes on her vest...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: CRLS.: The Kids Next Door | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...were Kenny, I'd wear a bulletproof vest for the next couple of days. Granted, that won't protect him from the back pages of the tabloids, "Vinny from Queens," or any other unemployed Mets fan that will undoubtedly call for his head on WFAN every day until he's gone...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stairway to Kevin: Stick to Chicken and Country Music | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...Ausable Wulff, Hare's Ear, Goofus Bug, Wild Muddler. Wild Muddler appealed to me. Chouinard--who is small and tightly built, with the forearms of the blacksmith he once was--wears green canvas sneakers with holes, a pair of yellowed sweat socks, denim shorts, a beaten cap, a Patagonia vest, of course, and a T shirt bearing the words CUTTHROAT BUSINESSMAN. It is a reference to the cutthroat trout he would like to catch (named for the red slash across its throat) and to the antithesis of the sort of businessman he is. He glides from rock to rock like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YVON CHOUINARD: Reaching the Top by Doing the Right Thing | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...burglar, described by Donovan as a 5'10" black male wearing a red felt vest and a dark baseball cap backwards, was carrying a full backpack, which the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) says contained items stolen from other rooms in the Yard dorm...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First-year Surprises Burglar in Common Room: Matthews Burglarized For 2nd Time in a Week | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...turned our backs to the waves because our life vest in the front has a little pocket of air you can breathe if you're under water. I could hear each wave from behind me like a freight train coming. Then it sounded like a jet going past, as it hit me in the back like a 20-lb. sledgehammer. The waves were like five-story buildings--light green, with whitecaps on top. As they broke over me, it all turned a real royal blue, a real pretty, beautiful blue because of the light shining through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adrift in Floyd: It Was Like Watching Hope Float Away | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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