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Word: dudes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to single out the junior that will quarterback the Harvard football team this Saturday against Yale, but face it, dude. You got a kick-butt name...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: What's In a Name | 11/16/1994 | See Source »

Sullivan's formal education ended in the fifth grade, and he got his first job at age 12 driving a six-horse team. In his early teens, Harvard students hung his nickname on him. Undergraduates dressed Mickey up in a tuxedo, and called him "the Dude." It stuck...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: City's Politics Remain All in the Family | 10/5/1994 | See Source »

...Dude" had a devious sense of humor. In 1948, when the councillors were struggling to elect a mayor, Sullivan created a moment of levity by placing an egg in fellow councillor Hyman Pill's pocket, hoping that it would break when Pill sat down. The egg story made the pages of Life magazine...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: City's Politics Remain All in the Family | 10/5/1994 | See Source »

Fred R. Cruickshank, a longtime friend of the Sullivan family, says his mother used to tell him a story about a lady who had met "Mickey the Dude" in city hall outside the welfare office...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: City's Politics Remain All in the Family | 10/5/1994 | See Source »

...Mickey "the Dude" died in 1949. Edward, who had originally planned to be an undertaker, changed his mind and won Mickey's seat on the city council...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: City's Politics Remain All in the Family | 10/5/1994 | See Source »

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