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Word: hmmm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Widener. Hmmm. Maybe I could kill two birds with one stone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Please | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...this day, whenever I am introduced to other Koreans, I meet with odd reactions. Some people give me a knowing smile as if to say, "Hmmm, we'd better not cross you." Others are genuinely shocked and taken aback; it's as though I'm being introduced to a Haitian as Jean-Paul "Baby Doc" Duvalier. I've had to deal with this kind of thing my whole life...

Author: By Jay Kim, | Title: Dangerous Names | 12/1/1993 | See Source »

...Lowell House this year even these few votes were unnecessary as only five candidates were on the ballot. Five candidates for five places. Hmmm. Write-in candidates? Well, outgoing council Chair Michael P. Beys '94 decreed all write-in candidates illegitimate. So much for democracy. Some of us used to laugh at the Soviet Union for just such farces...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Solution: Dissolution | 11/5/1993 | See Source »

...Does anyone in your family have diabetes? "My grandmother." - "O.K." (pause) "And my uncle." - "Hmmm...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: How Do You Freeze? | 10/16/1993 | See Source »

...perhaps, for the man himself -- he is one of those people whose disquiet, in his lyrics at least, has increased as a function of his rising success. The reasoning of such people tends to be variants on the following: I have a new car, a home, a pretty wife . . . Hmmm. Now that I have these things I could lose them: my car could be stolen, my wife could run off; in a worst- case scenario my wife could drive my car into my house and everything might explode. I am now more unhappy than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bluer Shade Of Black | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

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