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Word: blinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prospective students are especially confused,say admissions officers, who must explain thearcane procedure which admits women to Radcliffeand--"in the blink of an eye," says Director ofAdmissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73--enrollsthem in Harvard...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: THE END OF AN ERA | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...They have to save a quarter of a second," she adds. "In the blink of an eye, they can be killed if they don't evaluate [the situation] immediately...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Links Cave Paintings to Illiteracy | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...almost absurd to think that a child in kindergarten could read Watterson's strip, blink twice and say, "I don't get it"--that a child would not understand the essence of childhood...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Hanging On to Monkey Bars | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Fortunately, with Lidie, Smiley proves once again that she can jump through genres with the blink of a metaphorical eye and leaves the `repetitive subject matter' label with the likes of John Grisham and Danielle Steele. She takes the astoundingly courageous story of one pioneer woman, mixes it with a potentially-dry `olde-tyme' writing style and comes up with a tale that takes a few pages to get into, but that takes great effort...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wild, Wild West: Smiley Kicks It Covered-Wagon Style | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...budge unless more pressure is applied," says TIME correspondent William Dowell ? which puts the situation back to where it was in November, except that diplomacy will have been shown to have failed. "There's a massing of military force in the Gulf right now, enough to make Saddam blink," says Dowell. "If he doesn't back down, there will be a strong argument for using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Butler to Push Baghdad's Buttons | 1/21/1998 | See Source »

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