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Word: snaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's Something About Mary 26.4 Rush Hour 22.4 Saving Private Ryan 21.7 The Waterboy 21.7 You've Got Mail 19.4 The Truman Show 19.3 Enemy of The State 19.2 Stepmom 18.2 Snake Eyes 16.3 The Matrix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indicators: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Then, typically, they bring in a detective to unravel the plot and cuff the culprit. Highsmith simply ditched the civilized pretense of justice avenged. She tore the final, comeuppance chapter out of Ripley's story, left him giddy with triumph--and let him flourish in four more books. The snake, having shed its old skin, slithers away; the reader is both shocked and pleased. Crime pays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can Matt Play Ripley's Game? | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...McCain is more interested in showing off the pets--the iguana, the hamster and Leo the snake--as well as the house itself with its vast deck, pool and hot tub off the master bedroom, as if to say that life has been good to him after all. The four kids have already been packed off to school. And now Cindy, in this Phoenix home where she grew up, is in charge. She's more commanding here than in Washington, where even after 19 years in the role of a politician's wife, she still seems tentative. She says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: At Home: Trophies and an Iguana | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Next on tap was a tight finish in the 100-backstroke, with the top five finishers touching the wall within one second of each other. The Crimson wanted the win more, however, as McDougall and junior Angie Peluse powered ahead of the field to snake a one-two finish...

Author: By Tim M. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Swimming Stops Brown, Improves to Perfect 4-0 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...persist forever. In the years to come, as conventional medicine continues to make rapid advances and as the public becomes better informed about the deception and outright medical ignorance of many of these hucksters, alternative medicine will be consigned to what indeed is its rightful place: alongside snake oil, orgone booths and laetrile in the dustbin of medical history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Happen To Alternative Medicine? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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