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Word: formalities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to the formal declaration of war, believed to be the first among House communities in recent memory, Adams also declared Pforzheimer its "colony" and has confiscated its use of the letters "Pf." Adams now refers to its enemy as "orzheimer...

Author: By Eli. M. Alper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: War Looms as Adams, Pforzheimer Clash | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

Instead, Rivers took several students aside to explain her transition from man to woman, according to parents who objected that their religious and moral standards had been violated. In all, four parents filed formal complaints, assisted by the Pacific Justice Institute, a Sacramento-based firm that often represents Christian conservatives. Passions were further inflamed when Rivers gave an interview to the student newspaper, discussing her childhood belief that she would grow up to be a woman, her three failed marriages and recovery from alcoholism, her psychiatric and hormone therapy and her fear of rejection by students. "I'm not some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He? She? Whatever! | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Children of prior generations didn't get to go to formal events for their parents, other than funerals. So, by comparison, I guess I'm lucky. And I've developed key coping mechanisms, like buying presents that can't be kept in their home to remind me of my complicity in the union. Things like theater tickets or a gift certificate to a restaurant fit into this category. My mom's suggestion, that we chip in for a Jacuzzi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Mother, the Bride | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...only formal Dunster candidate, Chad A. Wathington '01, came in fourth...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Write-In Candidates Take Advantage of Sparse Field in Council Elections | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...allowed another Austrian demagogue to win Germany?s 1933 election. And like Hitler, Haider combines an odd assortment of conservative and left-wing economics with a paranoid fear of foreigners, a put-upon sense that his country has been wronged and an exhortation for it to rise to its formal imperial glory. Now where?s that Von Trapp family when you need them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria Takes a Puzzling Turn to the Right | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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