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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think it's had that longevity? I don't know. It's just a music whose time had come, I guess, and a lot of people were ready to listen. It was a pretty good hit as soon as it got out - everyone was playing it, I was hearing it on jukeboxes and things. It must have been pretty good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating Kind of Blue | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...kinds of bad choices. I could be around situations that I didn't have to participate in, you know? That was true all my life. It's about not overdoing everything. You just have to stay true to yourself, and you have to start out with good genes, I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating Kind of Blue | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

Anyone who has ever spent a few weeks on the police beat could guess what happened next. Coles blamed Davis. Davis fingered Coles. Investigators built a case from the available materials: ambiguous ballistics, jailhouse snitches, witnesses with grudges and the often unreliable observations of the sort of folks who need a burger at 1 a.m. The amalgam was enough to persuade 12 jurors that Davis was guilty, and because the dead man wore a badge, the sentence was death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Davis Ruling Raises New Death-Penalty Questions | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...cost-effective - despite the fact that the bill says nothing about either of these frightening issues. In fact, geriatricians - doctors trained specifically to care for the elderly - support the provision, arguing that it will encourage patients to express their own preferences rather than leave doctors and family members to guess what they want once they're no longer able to say so themselves. There are only about 7,500 geriatricians in the U.S., and one of them is Dr. Laurie Jacobs, vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Issues of End-of-Life Care | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...cheating? "I know why the Treaty of Westphalia was signed, and you don't," he said. When I asked him why the Treaty of Westphalia was signed, Art got real quiet. "Uh. I believe it was about the Thirty Years' War," he said. I was laughing at his stupid guess until he looked it up. "Suck it! It was!" he yelled. That's when I knew for sure that Art had finally learned his lesson and had used that pause to cheat and look it up. I am so proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheating: It's All-American — And It's Great! | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

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