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Word: whims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...primary sex objects: fast, shiny, glamorous and aerodynamically smooth. Madison Avenue sold the car as woman. Playboy sold the woman as erotic machine. The Playboy man could drive her as NASCAR speeds, stop when he felt like it, trade her in for a new model as the whim drove him - not once a year, as Detroit pressed him to, but every month, in the Playboy centerfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Your Grandfather?s Playboy | 1/3/2004 | See Source »

...share beautiful things," hip Brit tycoon Richard Branson started hiring out his private paradise in 1985. For $272,650 a week, this Caribbean hideaway comes complete with a 10-room villa, three Balinese houses, freshwater pools, floodlit tennis courts and a staff of 33 to cater to every whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise to Let | 12/20/2003 | See Source »

...times this power overtakes Andrew. During one song he wandered into the audience, parading as the crowd made way for his motion, constricted on TT’s small stage. His stage presence is dynamic and imposing, as he moves and bends himself to the whim of his music, and chats with the crowd in his thick accent. The other members of the band seem content to let Andrew be the focus of the group and, despite drummer Gross’ outlandish costume, they avoid the live show’s spotlight...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concert Review | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

...Bush presidential campaign, joining Teach for America and applying to law school. She is hoping to squeeze in some time to “just sleep and relax,” but admits that it’s not always easy for her to drop everything on a whim...

Author: By Jennifer A. Woo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leading Lady | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

...either some fraction of the turnout from the first election or a lesser fraction of the total population of the district. If this turnout is not achieved, the appropriate response should be to hold elections again, not to dismiss the recall petition as merely reflecting some fickle and unimportant whim...

Author: By Brian J. Wong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recalling Common Sense | 12/3/2003 | See Source »

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