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Word: flair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Best of luck in your current endeavor. As demonstrated by your letter, your flair for romantic imagery will take you far. Just be considerate. you may call her "possum' or "kitten"--but not "roadkill kitty" and the like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drunken socks | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...indiscernible in their forms or presentation styles. Good columns and features may stand out as testament to a writer's craft, but often the writer stands silently behind his or her game or featured athlete like the umpire hoping to be complemented with silence, his task performed with neither flair nor error...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Welcome to the New Regime | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

People tend to make the same mistake with conservatives on Harvard's campus--imagining that everyone right-of-center is a Peninsulite. Peninsula has a flair for making people very, very angry. But it certainly isn't the only voice of nonliberal thought. And just because Peninsula's Council Members and Guardians and Scribes and Serfs enjoy making noise, just because they enjoy making people angry, doesn't mean they don't believe in what they...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Words Will Never Hurt You | 1/26/1994 | See Source »

...these words, Campbell does not seem ingenuous. Although he plays with a highly individualistic flair, he has already made his mark as team captain...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Campbell: Courtside Anomaly | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

...flair and commercial flavor, Bowe's extracurricular life has also reflected the champion's earnest side. In February Bowe took a two-week goodwill trip around the world, making stops in South Africa, where he met with Nelson Mandela and pledged his support to the African National Congress; Somalia, where he delivered medical supplies to volunteer relief workers and visited American troops; and the Vatican, where he had a private audience with the Pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like...Ali: RIDDICK BOWE | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

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