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Word: chalks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend to this day, Sumiyo Tsuchikawa, the two most fluent English speakers in the group, would go to the blackboard and write down teasers like "Did you go out with anyone during college?" The rest of the class shouted out questions in Japanese for the pair to translate in chalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masako Owada: Japan's 21st Century Princess | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

Some members of the BGLSA expressed concern about what they called an "anti-gay" blue square drawn in chalk at the foot of the Widener steps. The "pro-family values" group the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) has adopted the blue square in its campaigns, but yesterday Robert K. Wasinger '94, a member of the AALARM presidential council, denied that the group had drawn this blue square...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Holocaust Victims Honored in Memorial | 4/17/1993 | See Source »

...Chalk this win up to superior talent and to that old intangible, grit...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Fifth-Ranked Laxwomen Showcase Balance in 13-2 Dismembering of Eagles | 4/9/1993 | See Source »

There is nothing remotely decent about ridiculing the constitutional separation of powers by asserting that when Congress exercises its power to appropriate funds the executive branch can circumvent congressional will and chalk it all up to "policy differences...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Playing Santa Claus With the Law | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

...Chalk another one up to mankind's micromanagement of nature. Recklessly arrogant and myopic, Alaska's decision is rooted in special-interest economics, not biology. It's all the more distressing for what it tells us about ourselves as a species and our estrangement from nature. Alaska's folly is the product of a theme-park mentality in which nature exists for our amusement, to be enhanced by adding one species and subtracting another. An indiscriminate assault will kill off pack leaders, leaving wolves in hierarchical disarray, and harm eagles, foxes and wolverines, which dine upon the carcasses wolves leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World Is Not A Theme Park | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

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