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Word: blankings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crowd, hands stick out store receipts, corners of newspapers and blank checks for Baldwin's autograph. Most people, though, are having a hard time focusing on the issue. Baldwin spends a few minutes needling Arline and Arthur Hass on the merits of the petition. They sign, but the couple are not clear about what's going on. "I don't know. What's it for?" asks Arline. And some of those who think they know, well..."It's to get money from politics and put it into the environment," insists Velma Marotte. "More stars should get out and do this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAKING POLITICAL BABY STEPS | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...Crimson (6-1, 4-0 Ivy), a two-point underdog for its visit to Hanover, N.H., burst out of the gate quickly on offense and made its best defensive showing in recent memory to blank the Big Green (5-2, 3-1), 24-0. The win vaulted Harvard into sole possession of first place in the Ivy League and ended Dartmouth's quest to remain unbeaten in the league for a second straight season...

Author: By Dov J. Glickman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: And Then There Was One | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

Michaele Ferguson, a Government teaching fellow and Cambridge voter, said, "I tried to encourage all of my students to vote and they all gave me blank stares...

Author: By Jamie H. Ginott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Students Evade the Polls | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

...evil, you say? Well, he's already taken a tentative step in that direction. Try to access Microsoft's popular online gaming site, the Zone, using Netscape's browser or a Mac machine for a taste of the power Gates could eventually wield. "We're sorry," reads the otherwise blank page. "The new Zone doesn't currently support Microsoft Windows 3.x; or Apple Macintosh or Unix (R) operating systems, or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 2.0 or Netscape Navigator browsers." Resistance is futile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL RENO BRAKE WINDOWS? | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...unimaginative work is guaranteed. Nicholas Delbanco '63 has made literature by the numbers with his new book Old Scores. The prefab plot of star-crossed love between teacher and student serves as his canvas, but a serious mixup occurrs with the paint. Large sections of the completed work remain blank, and the final result is not a thing of beauty. Delbanco has rehashed an old tale with little style and less coherence...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Not Like That Book by Nabokov: 'Scores' Less of a Draw, More a Loss | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

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