Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lifting underdogs. Gore has the state's top 100 Democrats more or less locked up; after that, most folks are up for grabs. Some 400 have joined Bradley's New Hampshire campaign, and his events around the state draw full houses, though it's too early to tell the curious from the committed. He's performing well on the stump; after his thoughtful speech at the state party convention in Manchester, an internist named Dick Tartow, 67, who had volunteered for Gore just two weeks before, yanked off his GORE 2000 button and replaced it with one that said BRADLEY...
Gretzky's career is a bit curious in that he did it backward. You're supposed to rise from obscurity, slowly dominate the sport, overcome adversity and go out on top, like that basketball guy. By the time Gretzky was 10, though, he was featured in a half-hour television special. At 18, his fame was part of the reason the National Hockey League absorbed the upstart World Hockey Association, where Gretzky was playing for the Edmonton Oilers. He had won four Stanley Cup championships with the Oilers by the time he was 27. He married actress Janet Jones...
Just as FBI counterespionage agents were drawing a bead on Los Alamos nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee, the files disgorged a curious fact: Lee's wife, Sylvia, had been an FBI "informational asset" at the very time Lee was suspected of passing classified warhead data to the People's Republic of China. From 1985 to 1991, according to well-informed sources, Sylvia Lee, a native Chinese speaker who held a support-staff job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, reported to FBI agents about visiting delegations of PRC scientists. She was not an "operational asset," jargon for paid informant...
...Internet will be a key part of this effort, beginning with what Wrinn calls "better road mapping," meaning that Harvard's Web site will do a better job of directing visitors and the curious to the highlights of what Harvard has to offer...
Gomes pointed third to a group of people who are "curious about the other...