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Word: cloak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Where most mid-20th century statesmen feel obliged to cloak their extraordinary qualities in a mantle of folksiness, he unabashedly regards himself as a historic figure and comports himself as a man of greatness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...EVERQUEST Materializing out of thin air like a magic cloak, Sony's 3-D online fantasy world quickly stole the role-playing crown from Ultima Online. Creating virtual Dungeons & Dragons environments is all the rage--Microsoft has since started treading the same turf with Asheron's Call--but Everquest's superior software puts it sword and shield above the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cybertech: The Best Cybertech of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...mean for Radcliffe itself and for Harvard as a whole, it appears as if the union has already spawned one unfortunate and unforeseeable consequence. In its formative stages, the Ann Radcliffe Trust seems to have taken to incorporating one of the University's worst attributes--a love for the cloak of secrecy...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Trust We Can Trust | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...seem to be Wordsworth and Shakespeare and Keats; her story reads as if one of the Bronte sisters had gone off whaling. Yet for all the literary grandeur, much of the book possesses the reader like an unholy fever. A woman walks through the mist in a wolf-trimmed cloak. A madman cries, "Now we eat our fingernails. Now the spiny stars." Naslund writes with the fearlessness of her protagonist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ishmael, Meet Jane Eyre | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...noisily announced that it would appeal a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, handed down in Denver, two weeks ago, that it claims gives telephone companies the right to peddle data on customers to a third party without their permission. "We tried to give consumers a meaningful cloak of privacy," said Kennard. "But what we have today is nothing more than a fig leaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Reading Your Bills? | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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