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Word: freshened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increase in the gas tax, then eased off it. He has sought advice from his circle of friends and advisers, but some are dismayed by the candidate's refusal to evolve, suggesting that he's like a Vegas comedian who uses the same jokes over and over, refusing to freshen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIS WAY OR NO WAY | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...Since homosexuals cannot reproduce, they must freshen their ranks with our children They will use money, drugs, alcohol, any means to get what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe There's Something in the Juice | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...nothing fancy:If an officer got in a struggle in a street, wereexposed to someone filthy, or bodyfluids--something more serious--someone thatreally stunk, or if someone worked a twelve-hourshift and would like to take a quick shower inbetween shifts, it would be nice to have a placeto freshen up," Kotowski said. "If you get in afight with a filthy homeless person, there shouldbe some specific strong soaps...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Police Work Amid Damage, Disrepair | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

...pieces, vignettes and profiles from the period spanning the last days of World War II and the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy TV debates. The book ends abruptly with Dean Acheson complaining that both candidates appeared too cold, calculating and boring. It is Halberstam's way of trying to freshen up an old point: that the debates, in which Nixon looked uncomfortably shifty and Kennedy came off as poised and decisive, changed forever the way politicians were packaged and sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golden Oldies | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...KIND OF IMPOSSIBLE-TO-FIND, mundane consumer product or another is treasured like gold. In Somalia the U.S. troops reportedly will trade just about anything for a nice box of HUGGIES. With clean water in such short supply in the stifling climate, everyone yearns for a chance to freshen up. According to an NBC cameraman who just returned from the front, war-weary journalists are bartering the diapers, which when moistened, provide a great rubdown, almost as good as a bath. Says he: "And they leave you smelling baby-powder fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few Good (Sweet-Smelling) Men | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

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