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Word: explains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they hope to double that number this year. Their computerized data base has about 900 potential donors (half of them lawyers) of food, clothing, toys and money. In fact, the 15-year-old group is so formalized that it has tax-exempt status and a 15-page booklet to explain the group's goals to new members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jailhouse Rockefellers | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...explain my despicable behavior. That article wasn't the result of any lapse in my fanatical devotion to the Redskins. It was one sickening manifestation of a total transformation of my personality--perpetrated by my roommate, an evil Dallas Cowboys fan if there ever...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: 'Redskins, I Hail Thee Again' | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...first week of school my sophomore year at Harvard, I was violently attacked. I was too scared to call it a gay-bashing at the time. I tried to explain my severely broken nose--a visible injury that required surgery three times and still causes me pain--as a "mugging" even though nothing was taken and they called me "fag" as they...

Author: By Thomas B. Watson, | Title: Tolerance Is Not Enough | 11/7/1990 | See Source »

...contacted the two posterers and--setting aside their personal attacks on him--met with them to discuss the issue. He wrote a letter to RUS proposing a joint meeting with RUS leaders, the Faculty Council and the Administrative Board. He now plans a mass mailing to all undergraduates to explain his position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reform the System | 11/6/1990 | See Source »

...Commander in Chief sat nearby, determinedly mowing down a stack of pancakes. Later, at a fund-raising lunch in Manchester, N.H., for Representative Robert Smith, who is trying to graduate to the Senate, the candidate didn't bother to show up at all. One White House aide tried to explain away the trip's miscues as "a study in ineptitude." But it was all in a day's work for the Perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perfect Spy | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

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