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Word: hunts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leading edge of a 50-attack-sub armada that the Navy wants for the 21st century. (A separate class of 18 strategic submarines, which serve as platforms for intercontinental ballistic missiles, will be downsized to 14.) But there is a growing sense that these new subs, designed to hunt other ships and launch land and sea attacks, may be preparing for a war that will never come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Sinking Feeling | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...veteran. To lose a player like Laela, who has an enormous amount of confidence, has a huge effect besides the points. She adds something else to this team. It's going to make things tougher, but we're still in the race; we're still in the hunt...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hoops Loses Sturdy to Ankle Sprain | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...desire to hunt for Stoppard's touch is understandable. The playwright, who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and educated in India and England, catapulted to fame with a different Shakespearean work: the 1967 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an existential reimagining of two characters from Hamlet. Since then his work has been known for its wordplay and highbrow subject matter--such as chaos theory in Arcadia, or the life of poet A.E. Housman in The Invention of Love, now running in London. Many of his plays have been criticized for their emotional inaccessibility, but, says Stoppard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scene Stealers | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...WITCH-HUNT FOR SMOKERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 28, 1998 | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...wouldn't stop me either. It is ridiculous to think that just for being caught smoking three times, kids under 18 can have their license revoked. There are drunk drivers on the road who have been caught more times than that and still continue to drive. The witch-hunt for smokers has gone too far. MIRIELLE PETITJEAN Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 28, 1998 | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

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