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Word: awful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't see much of that side. Oh, Watson beats his son every Sunday and throws a half-caste mistress off his land when she becomes inconvenient. But the narrative, which is told in 36 short chapters by ten locals, mostly mixes awe and dread, along with a certain aw-shucks accommodation. Outsize characters, Watson's workmen and neighbors seem to think, have their little crotchets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wild Tread of God KILLING MISTER WATSON by Peter Matthiessen | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...their parents. The principal got up and said, 'Note that I start at 8 o'clock, not one minute before or one minute after. At Regis we do things on time.' Well, my father said, loud enough to be heard ten rows in front and ten rows behind, 'Aw, s---!' I thought, that's it! I'm finished. They'll have my ass out of here in the morning." They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIMOTHY HEALY : New Page For an Old Bookworm | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...George Washington was there." A former Miss Bloomington, Minn., blew her chance to break into the big time when she sang the anthem before a Minnesota Twins game. By the time she got to the "land of the free," she was in the land of the hopelessly confused. "Aw, nuts," she muttered into the microphone, and gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh Say, Can You Sing It? | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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