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Word: interrupted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...share his knowledge with them. Under his tutelage, they learned how to seize control of a telephone account and alter services at will. One trick: turning a rival's home telephone into a pay phone, so that whenever his parents tried to dial a number an operator would interrupt to say, "Please deposit 25 cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hacker Homecoming | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...narrative techniques interrupt the flow of the film and Angel's odd appearances only hinder the storytelling instead of enhancing it. Angel sneakily walks on and off the screen, but the revelation of who he is does not justify these constant interruptions. Furthermore, and most importantly, what he says does not embellish, inform or further the progress of the story. He is useless...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Bergman Happens To Find a Great Duo | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

Being in America can change a Candian--Prabhu says that now "I jaywalk with abandon and I interrupt with abandon." And in all of Harvard College, one might argue, there's no better training ground for interrupting others than the Undergraduate Council...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Prabhu Keeps Her Composure | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...pondering the decision he must make by next Friday. But all indications are that the President will continue to give Beijing some form of the most-favored-nation status under which Chinese goods enter American markets at low tariff rates. "I think he will find a way not to interrupt MFN," predicted House Speaker Tom Foley, who will have to round up votes to prevent Congress from overturning a Clinton decision. Since a year after the Tiananmen Square massacre, lawmakers have been pressing the White House to punish Beijing by withdrawing MFN status; twice in 1992 lawmakers forced George Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twisting Off the Hook | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...president of the Harvard Computer Society. "You get right down to business. You can talk to strangers and have no qualms about it. In real life, if there are people sitting around talking about something, I'm not necessarily going to go up to them and interrupt...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: University Moves Onto Infohighway | 4/5/1994 | See Source »

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