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Word: glides (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Touches and kisses abound. Fairies glide through the audience strewing prophylactics. And Oberon sports black stockings and a jacket woven with the latex of condoms and a slit rubber glove...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: A Mid-afternoon Dream at Adams | 5/4/1990 | See Source »

...process known as induction, convert the magnetic force back into electricity. When such a metal plate is suspended from the bottom of a battery-run car, the vehicle can pick up power simply by moving down an electrified road. For maximum performance the plate needs to glide within 5 cm to 8 cm (2 in. to 3 in.) of the road's surface, which must therefore be unusually smooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: L.A.'s High-Watt Highway | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...preserve the peaceful status quo. His vessel -- larger than a World War II aircraft carrier -- has been modified so that it can run faster and more quietly than any other submersible, which means it has something no solo submarine has ever had: first-strike capability. It can glide in close to the U.S. Eastern seaboard, undetected, and start lobbing nuclear missiles at major population centers. Or threaten to. Being the sort of man who thinks he ought to help prevent World War III, not start it, Ramius enlists his key officers in a conspiracy to hoodwink the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A High-Stakes Blindman's Buff | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

Genocide theorists disagree on whether whites are consciously plotting black extermination. Some, like the Rev. Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide United Methodist Memorial Church, pin the drug epidemic on "a group of whites somewhere" who think blacks are getting too much political power. Others charge that the U.S. Government developed AIDS to wipe out blacks, testing it on homosexuals before unleashing it in the ghetto. More widespread is the view, put forth by Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, that genocide will inevitably occur because the U.S. Government is not doing enough to stanch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genocide Mumbo Jumbo | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

Char Joslin kept the Crimson heartbeat going with a shorthanded goal in the opening minutes of the game. Harvard had just let two scoring oppurtunities glide by, failing to cash in on two consecutive power plays...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Dartmouth Tops Icewomen in OT, 3-2 | 1/5/1990 | See Source »

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