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Word: bitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listening to his father, a preacher, read from the book of Proverbs. In his heart, however, the 17-year-old was pondering the words of a classmate. "Don't be at prayer circle on Monday," Michael Carneal had told Strong on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Carneal was a bit of a misfit at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., one who occasionally wore ill-fitting, loud-colored clothes and had a couple of disciplinary problems (browsing the Playboy Website, digging a sharp object into a wall). But Carneal could also discuss the Shakespeare play assigned to class (Romeo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST PADUCAH, KY: WHEN THE SILENCE FELL | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...wound down with a panel of actual children--a cute if predictable stunt. Onstage with their parents and teachers before a ballroom full of strange, faceless adults, the kids readily assured us that they do all they can to avoid naughty material on the Net. They were perhaps a bit more credible when talking about the genuine fun you can have online--a notion that may have escaped many of their listeners. The president of a Website company bet that if I asked summit participants what they used the Internet for, most would say nothing but E-mail. I conducted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY JOHNNY CAN'T SURF ONLINE | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Blondie spent 14 weeks at the police academy. "It was mostly firearms training, first aid and war stories," he says. "They taught a bit about things like probable cause--just to say they had taught it--but the message was clear: What you really do as a cop you learn on the street from the veterans, and you could be sure, as they said, that it was nothing like what you learned at the academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW COPS GO BAD | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Tough men go dippy in her presence. They look beyond the blondness and see a questing intelligence, a wit that can sting or caress and, in the corners of her smile, a hint that with the right guy, she wouldn't mind messing around a bit. So, in Twister, a meteorologist (Bill Paxton) runs away with her, ditching his fiance to wildcat after tornadoes. On Mad About You, her TV husband (Paul Reiser) can't stop rhapsodizing. "I'm admiring a beautiful girl who married me for some reason," he says, and "all I know is that I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MAD ABOUT HER | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...outside shooting has not been the strongest part of our game. We're struggling a little bit with accuracy. Once we start hitting those shots, it will free up some of that pressure [on Feaster...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Basketball Aims to Extend Winning Streak to Five Versus UNH | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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