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Word: gentlemanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lack thereof, the body-fat ratios of the rowers on the men's team, how the Southern Belle paddle-wheel boat will sometimes cruise by them so the tour guide can say, "Off to the right, we have the Olympic rowing team. Take a closer look, ladies and gentleman, 'cause some of them have legs as big as a man's!" They'll discuss anything, that is, but the pressure they actually feel about the Big Day, which is July 28, in Gainesville, Georgia. Still, like the Olympic rings that Amy Fuller has tattooed on her rear end, the will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROWING: 8 LIVE CREW | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

...long as we give our love and respond more to "an officer and a gentleman" instead of to "a private and a pacifist," men will tend to confuse love and respect with rank and, having defined themselves that way, will feel that the loss of rank is the loss of self--hence suicide. What can we do? If we use Admiral Boorda's suicide to deepen our understanding, then his death will save more lives via prevented suicides than he would have saved in commanding men effectively during wartime. WARREN FARRELL Encinitas, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1996 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...next year and a half, Conant played a major role in the interventionist movement. He began to make more frequent trips to Washington and also became a member of the influential "Gentleman's Club," an informal group of wealthy activists who used their connections with the influential elite to create the public support necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM SOLDIERS TO SCHOLARS | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

Anything could happen. Tenured faculty in love beads distributed Maoist literature in the Square; a white-haired gentleman known only as "Mr. A. Nony Mous" took countless cryptic full-page ads in The Crimson to promote a cause he called "All Students for a Goodness Society," a sectlike group of protesters from Columbia Teachers College stage a nude-in in a House laundry room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building a New Fair Harvard in Four Years | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...really just a gentleman. He never resorted to violence. You never saw him rough anyone up," Abbott continued. "Sometimes you'd see Magnum tear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Falk Is Named 'Gentleman Of The Year' | 4/2/1996 | See Source »

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