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Word: blankings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...squiggle," which confounds would-be watchdogs with its sheer inscrutability. Others prefer the bold authoritativeness of writing the supposed signer's name in legible print; who wouldn't buy such an audacious gambit? Most effective is "the circle sign." Get a bunch of friends together and pass blank study cards counter-clockwise until all the requisite boxes are neatly filled with convicingly diverse penstrokes...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 2/12/1994 | See Source »

Colgate drew a blank in eight man-up chances(having converted three of nine in the previousmeeting), and Harvard tallied on its first threeopportunities in extending its unbeaten streak...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Icemen Remain Hot, 4-1 | 2/12/1994 | See Source »

...shoplifters tell a different story. One senior male says he has purloined "about 80 CDs, 20 to 100 books, T-shirts--those white underwear T-shirts--notebooks, candy bars, posters, blank tapes." Audacity, he claims, is the best disguise. "I never slipped anything [under] my coat," he says. "I just walked straight out of the building...I would never try to be covert...

Author: By R.i. Wilson, | Title: LICENSE TO STEAL | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...psychologist had secretly made became known. On it they said they had killed their parents because it was what was best for their mother, who had been cheated on by her husband. So what could the jury have made of the fact that they reloaded to shoot her point-blank in the face when she refused to quit crawling away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Killer Smile | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...pushed Trokovsky steadily round the bend, the film's unanswered questions drove me equally mad with curiosity: Why doesn't Trokovsky just move into another apartment? Why does he always keep the lights in his apartment turned off, so that the audience stares for the most part at a blank grey screen? And most of all, why is the dead girl's gorgeous friend Stella (Isabelle Adjani) so determined to get the thoroughly unattractive Trokovsky into...

Author: By Tilly Franklin, | Title: Cross-Dressing "Tenant" Drags | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

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