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Word: pompadour (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arriving at Vancouver in a driving rain that dampened his gray pompadour, the Russian leader pledged again to keep pressing for reform, whatever the opposition. "The Communists want to take revenge, to take us back to the past," he said. But "as long as there is President Yeltsin in power, then definitely my answer is yes, the reforms will continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The First Aid Summit | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...Myers, Clinton's press secretary, didn't say whether the candidate would start growing sideburns, comb his hair into a pompadour, or don the white leather fringed jackets or aviator shades favored by The King during his Las Vegas days of the early...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, THE ASSPCOATED PRESS | Title: The News Of the Weird | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

Stein insists that, as long as Ray Barracks survives, he will keep his shrine to Elvis, including the scissors and straight razor he used to maintain the Presley pompadour after his basic-training cut grew...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The News of the Weird | 2/22/1992 | See Source »

Forget the fish, the flies that attract them are so exquisite it seems a sin to get them wet. With such tantalizing names as Silver Monkey, Colonel's Lady, Pompadour and Easy Off, the flies in this beautifully photographed book are the real trophies that should be mounted on the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Come All Ye Faithful Readers | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...years. At the blackboard, several sophomores are diagraming sentences. A timid girl with glasses identifies a predicate phrase modifying a compound verb. When she's finished, Clark scans the room and says with a wry smile, "Paulette, you're the next volunteer." Paulette, a tiny girl with a large pompadour, dutifully marches to the blackboard and, in a spidery hand, diagrams a sentence with a nonrestrictive relative clause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farmington, New Mexico Caught Between Earth and Sky | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

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