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Word: canted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They cant sing. Theyre professional lip-synchers! No live band, no improvisation. Just pure, 100 percent unconcentrated lip-synching straight out of the carton. No potential for mess-ups, no whines from the crowd that the live versions sound different, no need for talent...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, A POP CULTURE COMPENDIUM | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...people mean anything at all by the cant expression "untimely death," they must believe that some deaths run on a better schedule than others. Death in old age is rarely called untimely--a long life is thought to be a full one. But with the passing of a young person, one assumes that the best years lay ahead and the measure of that life was still to be taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Measure of a Life | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...CANT GET THERE FROM HERE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 REASONS WHY HARVARD SUCKS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...response to the "high-ranking official" who anonymously attacked Professor Nesson for his involvement in my appeal, I wish to say that Charlie has given generously of his talent, time and energy and I am most grateful. It is true that Charlie has an unusually low tolerance for cant, double-talk and hypocrisy. But it is precisely these eccentricities that make him a good friend and an invaluable asset to the University. PETER BERKOWITZ Jan. 12, 1999 The writer is associate professor of government 13/01/1999 Editorial 10 Letters Tenure System Needs Review To the editors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officials Misrepresent Facts In Berkowitz Tenure Fight | 1/13/1999 | See Source »

Alvy soon has enough of the professor's pretentious cant and triumphantly produces the real-life McLuhan, who conveniently was waiting behind a nearby signboard. The lines McLuhan delivers to the academic are priceless...

Author: By Sujit Raman, | Title: Academic Truth Is All Relative | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

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