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Word: bronx (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a bitterly disappointing trip to the backwoods of New York last week, the Harvard football team wants a completely different ambiance tomorrow when it travels to the Bronx to face the Fordham Rams...

Author: By Mackie Dougherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Football looks to Rebound Against Fordham | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...fact, I used to fancy myself more of a springtime kind of guy. Back in elementary school, spring meant so much more to us suburban kids. Little League came back into town. Recess was outdoors once againoinstead of inside the rotting gym. The Yankees were playing in the Bronx again. By the time we were in high school, the hormones were raging and the girls were always breaking out their summertime wardrobes just a little too early. And summer vacation was just around the corner. Yeah, I could see why spring could be someone's favorite seasonojust not mine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: How To: Cross a Street | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...playing with six players wasn't daunting enough for the boys from the Bronx, another Ram was kicked out of the pool for excessive arguing with the referee...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Proof is in the Polo at Iona | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

Tracey McNamara had never seen anything like it. In July, dead crows began turning up by the dozens at New York City's Bronx Zoo. By August, McNamara, the zoo's staff pathologist, had collected carcasses of 40 birds. Meanwhile Dr. Deborah Asnis, an infectious-disease specialist at Flushing Hospital in Queens, reported the admission of two elderly patients with muscle weakness, fever and confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Mosquitoes, Dead Birds and Epidemics | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...Bronx Zoo, however, pathologist McNamara was becoming increasingly concerned that the coincidence was too unlikely to ignore. Over the Labor Day weekend, several rare birds in the zoo's collection had suddenly died, and her autopsies showed heart and brain damage. She promptly sent tissue samples to a U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinary lab in Ames, Iowa. Finding no evidence of equine encephalitis or other suspected pathogens, the lab forwarded her samples to a CDC lab in Fort Collins, Colo., for further study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Mosquitoes, Dead Birds and Epidemics | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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