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Word: backups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school, few took Kinkel's menace seriously. He was known as a class clown, a little weird but with plenty of friends. Although small for his age, he played football as a backup linebacker and took karate lessons. And if classmates failed to report his darker side, teachers seemed equally nonchalant. He reportedly gave a presentation in speech class on how to build a pipe bomb, complete with illustrations. In a literature course, he was said to have read from a diary in which he mentioned plans to "kill everybody." Asked at a news conference whether officials should have reacted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy Who Loved Bombs | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...respond to non-prioritized calls like stolen bikes. We do reports, and we also respond to heavy calls as backup," explains Officer Derosiers, who is originally from Haiti...

Author: By India F. Landrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALKING THE BEAT | 5/22/1998 | See Source »

...faster it cuts through water. A 50-ft. wave, after all, travels at speeds in excess of 20 m.p.h., and anyone who's too slow at the approach risks being smashed. Every so often, in fact, a big-wave surfer dies. This year Jet Ski rescue teams provided backup, and there have been no fatalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Winter Of Giant Waves | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...scrub, a sophomore backup guard, on the last great Princeton squad, the team that won the National Invitational Tournament in 1975. I can't take much credit for the victory, except that I did occasionally force the first team to work up a sweat in practice, and I did absorb my fair share of the coaches' abuse. But the real curse of a Princeton basketball education is that it renders you unfit for pickup games for the rest of your life. No one looks for the open man. No one sees you when you go backdoor. Guys hog the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stardom? They'd Rather Pass | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Harvard will have to avoid the unnecessaryfouls that have plagued it all season long, butBasil, backup point guard Lisa Kowal and seniorAlison Seanor can use their quickness to try torattle Stanford's forwards early...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Slay A Giant 101 | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

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