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Word: mirrored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst from Germany's past but also something just as bad that may lurk in their own future. These twin dreads interact powerfully, if not quite logically. As Gorbachev at least tacitly acknowledges, in his country rationality is as scarce as soap these days. The outside world is a mirror into which Soviets look and wince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Fear of Weimar Russia | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...murder stunned a city already beset by spiraling racial tensions. To many New Yorkers it symbolized a breakdown in racial civility that had no quick explanation or readily available cure. Some of the youths accused of killing Hawkins were jobless school dropouts with histories of drug abuse -- mirror images in whiteface of underclass young black males. The whites had armed themselves on the night of Aug. 23 because the former girlfriend of their alleged leader, Keith Mondello, had invited black and Hispanic guests to her birthday party. They mistook Yusuf and his comrades for those guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Mosaic | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

Because of these high standards, Wang Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Roger W. Brockett says that to a certain extent Harvard's difficulties in maintaining engineering enrollment mirror those of other universities...

Author: By John M. Bernard, | Title: Department Works to Gain Recognition | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...People hate to look in the mirror and say, "You know something? I gave it my all. I trained as hard as I could. And I'm not worth a s---." Excuse my French, but nobody wants to accept that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Spitz: Testing The Limits Of Middle Age | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...interest in the work is not how white writers treat Black characters," Morrison said, explaining that she is studying how the depiction of Black characters creates a "mirror of society...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Author Urges Research On Blacks in Literature | 5/18/1990 | See Source »

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