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Word: groanings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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What Zuckerman/Roth does with this imagined material is constantly mesmerizing. Library shelves groan under the weight of books published about the witch hunts and blacklistings during the Truman and Eisenhower presidencies, but it would be hard to find one among them that presents as nuanced, as humanly complex an account of those years as I Married a Communist. Nathan, for example, learns from Murray that Ira was a victim of the mania of his times but not an innocent one. He was a dedicated communist who lied to everyone, including Nathan's father, about his adherence to the dictates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Better Red? | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...tell myself as I groan out of a chaise in response to my son's "Dad, wanna play catch?" He is our third, the last in a line of catch players, the two before him having grown up and out. We stand about 20 m apart. He gives me the better glove, and we begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Game of Catch | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...that time of the year again. May has finally rolled around, and while the rest of the world is enjoying the light and warmth, Harvard students are greeting the darkness that is the cavernous campus library system. Moan, groan. In honor of Gwen 'Spicy' Shen's motto "always look at the bright side," here is a list of 10 reasons to be happy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 10 Reasons To Be Happy | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...baked cornbread muffins. Other appetizers include an elegant, but not especially interesting, mesclun salad, and a side order of Hoppin Shavonne: smooth fluffy cheese grits and black-eyed peas cooked with fresh tomatoes and onions. Complementing the appetizers is a selection from the broad range of microbrews--Jefferson Davis, groan in your grave--called Turbo Dog. The evening was looking...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: gourmet grits! | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...students deserve to groan as loudly as Carla S. Nappi '99. The Mather House resident is currently taking six classes for credit and is auditing an additional...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Days A Week: Students Do It All | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

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