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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kelly Donnelly is whiling away the last moments before a soccer clinic. Dad Pat has driven her there, of course. He watches as Kelly spends a minute or so keeping a soccer ball suspended by bouncing it lightly off her knees, in a kind of airborne dribble--a bit of magic that only the rarest adult could pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Crazy Culture Of Kids Sports | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...sing for fun and the ones who run the Fritos pie booth at the PTA school fair. Here's to the clerks who say, "Now you have a nice day, hear?" and mean it, and to the ones who say wryly, "If it was a snake, it would've bit you." Here's to whale savers and the wolf lovers and all the lovely birders. Here's to the citizens who organize the parades and the beauticians who volunteer to do the ladies' hair at the old folks' home. Here's to the people who make a lot of pickle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Jumble Out There | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...Breed of horror films was postmodern and self-mocking," says David Koepp, director and screenwriter of the ghostly Stir of Echoes. "The new New Breed movies aim a bit higher in the hierarchy of horror." Koepp's film, to open in September, stars Kevin Bacon as a blue-collar guy haunted by intimations of a distressed, deceased soul somewhere in his house. Says Koepp: "I tried creating a sense of total reality, because the movies that always scared the hell out of me were set in real, almost mundane domestic situations." In these restless residences and bucolic settings, fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: There's Something About Scary | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...Alexandra was answering a flood of questions with "No comment." In addition to those about her father, there is the matter of her mother, a prominent sportswriter who had worked for the New York Times, Playboy and other publications and was a reminder that tennis moms can be a bit overzealous. She has been a dedicated single mother, driving her daughter in an old Volvo station wagon to junior tennis tournaments throughout the U.S. and paying for expensive lessons. She has also publicly acknowledged, since Alexandra was four, that she intended her daughter to play at Wimbledon. "When Alexandra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doctor's Daughter | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

However, while McNeeley acknowledged that the delay has "hurt a little bit," he did note that assistant hockey coach Jerry Pawloski '88 has headed up the recruiting concerns...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Coach Search Nears End | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

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