Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the victors are involved in visible campus groups, such as the Immediate Gratification Players and the Radcliffe Pitches, and said this might have contributed to their wins. All are from different houses, and some said that perhaps house loyalty figured in the elections.
My life was saved by an Aborigine. His name was Charlie Fishhook. He was driving back toward Broome with his wife and teenage daughter when he saw my wreck on the blacktop. He stopped and checked that I was breathing. He couldn't get much out of me but figured...
"I figured I wouldn't need too many votes," she said.
In the movie "Field of Dreams," the character of Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham is shown as a tender-hearted old man who once played in one inning of a major-league game but never got to bat and never figured into a defensive play.
The first court battle ended in a mistrial. On retrial, the jury embraced New Thinking by finding American Tobacco liable for Horton's death--a conceptual breakthrough. But Old Thinking lingered: the jury figured, at the same time, that Horton had obviously brought cancer on himself and awarded zero dollars...