Word: ditto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...researchers cloned a sheep named Dolly and commentators started writing about virgin births and Frankenstein. But then one week later, researchers at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center let it be known that they had cloned a pair of rhesus monkeys, named Neti (for nuclear embryo transfer infant) and Ditto, that squinted in the glare of the TV lights and clung to each other for dear life...
...address, referring to "Chris, a freshman" who needs better advising and "Celia from Leverett" who wants money for her student group. Yet he managed to sound genuine in his desire to "build a council that students give a damn about," and he won the audience to him with his "ditto" after a long series of other candidates' answers to a question about race relations at Harvard...
Kudos to the Harvard-Radcliffe cheerleading squad for firing up the stands without any help from the ostensible musicians in their midst. Ditto for the thousands of innovative fans in Section 34 who started chanting fight songs sans Crimson accompaniment...
...expressions on the locals' faces were priceless. The middle-aged men sitting around the bar--fully bearded pirates with crooked the teeth and beer bellies--looked satisfied with life and relaxed. Ditto for the women watching the movie intently...
...born in Jamaica in the 1950s and championed by the likes of Bob Marley in his early career, Ernest Ranglin (who has a new CD out) and the Skatalites (ditto). In the late '70s ska resurfaced in the unlikely setting of Coventry, England, where the small but influential 2-Tone label brought back the sound with acts like the Selecter and the Specials (who just released a comeback...