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Word: exception (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father was just trying to stay alive. I cried and complained and told him this boy, my boyfriend, was mad at me and I couldn't do chem and wasn't having fun and couldn't get good grades and couldn't get along with Mom--everything, except how much I wanted him to stay alive. What is wrong with me, I kept thinking, that I can't tell my father how scared I am that he'll disappear? How his strong rower's body will shrivel up and his mind will lose all the things he knows about science...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: COFFEE AND POP | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...father was just trying to stay alive. I cried and complained and told him this boy, my boyfriend, was mad at me and I couldn't do chem and wasn't having fun and couldn't get good grades and couldn't get along with Mom--everything, except how much I wanted him to stay alive. What is wrong with me, I kept thinking, that I can't tell my father how scared I am that he'll disappear? How his strong rower's body will shrivel up and his mind will lose all the things he knows about science...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Endpaper: Coffee and Pop | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...come in, like me, with an associate degree," she said, "for the rest of your time you have nothing to do except go out in the yard...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female Ex-Convicts Call For Prison Reform | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...before "E" except after...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: The Problem with America is Dan Quayle | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

...should latch onto the campaign of Bob Smith, the ultra-conservative Senator from New Hampshire, who is such a long shot that he didn't even garner the endorsement of the other ultra-conservative Senator from New Hampshire. While Smith holds absolutely none of the same views I have (except that there should be a fifth branch of the military, "the Space Force"), Katz and I determined that Smith was the only one likely to return my calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Me and Mr. Smith | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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