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Word: hatful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...antiabortion rider in the House. The last thing the secretary general wants is a repeat of that farce. "Other countries in essence provide interest-free loans to cover largely American-created shortfalls," Annan wrote recently in the New York Times. Perhaps he'd have better luck passing the hat back to Ted Turner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Annan to U.S.: Ante Up | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

...jealous. But it is loyal to the little man it calls Charlie. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives from the little man with the hat and mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior would be recognized by more people throughout the world than would recognize any other man's face, will be doing business after talkies have been traded in for television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1929-1939 Despair | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...cheesy solipsisms of the Me decade. All the same, by the simple pressure of new possibilities, lives were refashioned, and not just into life-styles. Women, gays, blacks all decided to take seriously that stuff about the pursuit of happiness. Every week, when Mary Tyler Moore threw her hat into the air, a lot of people knew exactly how she felt. Seen in that forgiving light, even the sheer awfulness of '70s taste--leisure suits in grape-jelly purple, shag-carpeted vans, KC and the Sunshine Band--was just an unconfined democratic impulse set loose in the marketplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1973-1980 Limits: The Can't-Do Mentality | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...Fisher, who had 12 points in three games last week and was named ECAC player of the week, is not the entire team. Junior forward Melissa Heitzman had a hat trick and two assists in a 14-3 victory over Colby to raise her total to 55 points for the season. Sophomore forward Samantha Holmes had four points to lead UNH past St. Lawrence, 11-0, giving her 41 points for the year. New Hampshire outscored their opponents last weekend...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Do or Die in Durham | 3/6/1998 | See Source »

...potpourri of capablestick-handlers and nuclear families. On the rightside of the mural, at a lone table far away fromthe main event, two black men shoot a game. In themidst of jolly family fun and Hollywoodexcitement, one of the black players, dressed in ashiny leather suit with matching hat and danglinggold medallions, lines up his next shot.Meanwhile, his partner, clad in a blue and whitejumpsuit, shakes a fistful of dollars and a bottleof liquor, the Sully's tallisman. The mural maysay a number of things about Sully's--but mostlyit says that this place hasn't changed much overthe years...

Author: By Adam W. Preskill, | Title: THE CORNER POCKET | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

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