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Word: yam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

...good thing, if not a great thing. A great thing would have been a personal ad in the Village Voice. Something along the lines of "354 year-old single mostly-white co-educational university seeks intelligent individual with an interest in S&M, pointillist body painting, and yam-filled leather body stockings. Must be good at fundraising...

Author: By Brian D. Reich, | Title: New York State of Mind | 11/13/1990 | See Source »

...South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. Every spring villagers there collect liana vines and wind them into long cords. Young men then scale high wooden towers, lash the vines around their ankles and jump. A successful leap is considered a demonstration of courage -- and a harbinger of a plentiful yam harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Ultimate Leap of Faith | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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