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Word: aficionados (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wedding band. "You will notice no diamonds," she said, saying further that "Jack and I joke that other doctors in Sarasota spend $200 a week eating out. We don't, and this is why." She swept an arm grandly back toward the gleaming old bird, and just then an aficionado approached with a world of esoteric inquiries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

...used to be afraid of snakes, and I wanted to like them," says Sara, explaining why she asked her parents to buy her Honey, a python. Sam, also a snake aficionado, has his two snakes at school because "it's a really neat experience to get to know and touch them...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Room Pets: Furry Malefactors? | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

Sports Editor Jeffrey A. Zucker, a former Playgirl centerfold, enjoys tennis and video games. JI H. Min, The Crimson's Photo Chairman, aspires to the same position at The Wall Street Journal and is also a video game aficionado. You can meet both of them in our newsroom tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m., when you can also learn about the fall comp, Free beer here...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: From the Mailbag | 9/19/1984 | See Source »

Tall, heavily-built, dark-skinned and square-featured, Hemingway is still a bullfight aficionado (fan), likes also big-game fishing, hunting, plays tennis regularly to keep his weight down. Divorced (1926) from his first wife, he was remarried a year later to Pauline Pfeiffer, then a Paris fashion writer for Vogue, has had by her two sons, Patrick and Gregory Hancock. Since 1930, he has made his home at Key West, living there in a thick-walled, Spanish-built house, its garden somewhat incongruously inhabited by peacocks. His 30-ft. launch El Pilar he uses for casual pleasure jaunts, trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1937: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Department chairman and yachting aficionado David Mumford seemed to be most excited about the whole affair, saying the four Aussies were a "patriotic bunch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Australians Celebrate, Wave Native Colors in Victory | 9/27/1983 | See Source »

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