Word: waisted
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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...
CINCTURE Rope belt that goes around the waist...
...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...
...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...
...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...