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Word: waisted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...building a dome. ?Our dome, Britain?s dome,? said Prime Minister Tony Blair earlier this week, ?will be the envy of the world.? The contents of the $1.2 billion structure, revealed this week, include a 170-foot hollow sculpture of an androgynous human figure -- which visitors will enter at waist level and leave via the right leg -- and a ?dreamscape? across which visitors can travel on boats shaped like beds. Notwithstanding such Willy Wonka-esque attractions, many Brits remain skeptical. The rest of us will just have to live with our dome envy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If He Builds It, Will They Come? | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

CINCTURE Rope belt that goes around the waist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 26, 1998 | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...Thill and suspect Jeremiah Barnum, 23, bullied Dia, a hotel housekeeper, at a bus stop and knocked off his hat. When nurse's assistant Jeannie VanVelkinburgh picked it up for him, Thill opened fire. Dia died in minutes; VanVelkinburgh, a single mother of two boys, is paralyzed from the waist down. "It wasn't a planned thing," Thill told local station KMGH-TV. "Drank a little bit. I'm a deep thinker. Walked through town with my gun in my waist, saw the black guy and thought he didn't belong where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCKY MOUNTAIN HATE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...chillly September evening, first-years fidgeted in their Science Center seats and watched Officer Kevin P. Bryant approach the podium, sporting a Glock .40 semiautomatic pistol, handcuffs and a nightstick hanging around his waist...

Author: By Carlos A. Monje jr., CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HUPD Launches Community Policing | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...word-processing document or a spreadsheet or a piece of E-mail, and to launch the appropriate application. XML makes Websites smart enough to tell other machines whether they're looking at a recipe, an airline ticket or a pair of easy-fit blue jeans with a 34-in. waist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KEEPING TABS ONLINE | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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