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Word: couplet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about Peninsula's response to campus feminism, she "decided not to stoop to the level." But what is our level--complete English sentences? Kelly Bowdren's editorial, which appeared in The Crimson on the day of the rally ("Take You Night and..." April 21, 1994) led to the bacchanalian couplet mentioned above...

Author: By G. BRENT Mcguire, | Title: Confessions of an Iconoclast | 5/3/1994 | See Source »

Over the board, Short does not display the sort of crass aggressiveness with which Kasparov intimidates his opponents. He is cool and controlled, though under pressure he may fidget like an Oxford don struggling for the right translation of an Ovid couplet. But behind this outer tranquillity, he plots his opponent's destruction. After all, this is a man who once described chess as mental boxing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing With His Fingertips | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...party or in a section. Scott A. Berney '91 met his love on the band bus to Washington, D.C. He played the drums, she played the flute. And ever since that trip at the end of their first year, he and Amy E. Mainville '91 have been a couplet...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: WHO SAYS OPPOSITES ATTRACT? | 3/9/1991 | See Source »

...Scottish king and offers a variety of rich product- placement opportunities. Three elderly sisters will be cooking onstage throughout the play, sometimes even reciting recipes. A single product reference -- "Eye of newt, toe of frog, one-quarter cup ReaLemon reconstituted lemon juice" -- will be $20,000. An entire couplet will be priced at $40,000. For $60,000, the sisters will say, "Heck, let's just dump this mess and call Domino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: These Foolish Things Remind Me of Diet Coke | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

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