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Word: gleeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking for the Yard Plate, a fancy silverplatter. With 1,600 bodies tearing through thedark and screamingHolworthy/Lionel/Wigglesworth Rules!, it isanybody's guess who wins. Sometimes the outcomevaries. In past years, renegade Canaday F stolethe plate from finder Grays Middle and kept itovernight, receiving a warning from the Graysprefect and gleeful approval from the Canadayprefect. Stay tuned for the results this year

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

Given all this, it's no wonder doctors are handing out estrogen prescriptions with almost gleeful enthusiasm. According to researchers at the Food and Drug Administration, estrogen prescriptions in the U.S. more than doubled between 1982 and 1992. About a quarter of U.S. women at or past menopause -- roughly 10 million -- take the hormone, making estrogen a billion-dollar business. As baby boomers approach menopause, those numbers will skyrocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ESTROGEN DILEMMA | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...algorithmic process. The first is the path of reluctance, feat, even dread; this has been the main response of Western arts and letters since Darwin, and its products have ranged from the sentimental agnosticism of Matthew Arnold to the brutal existentialism of Sartre. The second is the path of gleeful Philistinism, which glories in exposing the rubes like Plato, Aquinas and Kant whose faith in human divnity has been overthrown by the glittering progress of Science...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Book Champions Theory of Evolution | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

Prosecutors today attempted to salvage the credibility ofcriminalist Dennis Fung. During six previous days of withering cross-examination, defenseDNA expertBarry Scheck had cast so much doubt on Fung's testimony that a gleeful defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr. was seen happily roaming the halls Thursday saying, "We're having Fung," while lawyer Robert Shapiro handed out fortune cookies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARE THEY HAVING FUNG YET? | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

...print all of the housing letters here. They're just not exciting enough. I'll respond to Hurling in Hurlbut, Gleeful in Grays, Starting to Drink in Straus and Can't Wait Until Next Year in Canaday all at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norma Knows | 4/13/1995 | See Source »

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