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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been really fortunate the last two years," Birk said. "I guess now it's a shock when we lose. I have to expect...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Star Birk Adjusts to NFL | 2/4/1999 | See Source »

...Dragon system used our training session to predict how I would say each of those sounds. Finally, I dumped in a few columns of "vocabulary builder" so the software could learn some of the peculiar phrases I use, such as "trainshouters" and "Bust-A-Move." Everything checked out. "My guess," said Gervais, "is that just by being more conscious of how you speak, you'll improve your accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Dictator | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...anything and everything, from ceremonial portraits to painted coach panels, from large allegorical paintings to banners for tourneys, costumes for masques, sets for the theater (which Alfonso delighted in) and perhaps the occasional crucifix or emblem of chastity for the ducal mistress's bedroom. Dosso had to second-guess the veering tastes of his boss--flatter him, keep him interested. And then there were the courtiers to deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Puzzles of A Courtier | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...Guess where most of the genetically perfect kids, developed as a result of gene insertion, will go? Straight to full-time day care, so their parents can pay off the $50,000 spent to have them. If the kids are not perfect, we can turn to your magazine, filled with Pfizer ads, to help us cope with this horrific life through various drugs. Having kids is about unconditional love, and life is about struggle. But in the future, maybe happiness will lie in kids--only the perfect ones--and in prescription drugs that cost a lot of money. HELLEREN GREGORY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 1, 1999 | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...terrain of adolescence. Once, twice at most, she toked a joint. Then, she says, one night in 1986, outside Crestwood High School in Roswell, Ga., with Patrick sitting beside her in her new silver Volkswagen Golf, she took her first hit of LSD. "My parents were divorcing, and I guess I was rebelling," says Mann, who was 16 at the time. "Besides, I thought Patrick was all of the things I wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unequal Justice: Why Women Fare Worse | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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