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Word: nail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard women's volleyball team lost a nail-biter to Yale in five games last night at the Malkin Athletic Center...

Author: By Jason Gross, | Title: Elis Deflate W. Spikers In Five Sets | 10/10/1990 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE--It was a do-or-tiesituation--3rd-and-goal, nine yards to go, threepoints behind, 40 seconds to play. Harvard had onelast chance for a winning TD. If it failed, itcould nail a chippie field goal for thetie--assuming, of course, that Lazarre-White didnot take a huge loss...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: It's Just a Game | 10/9/1990 | See Source »

...Edgehill Newport hospital, Four Winds hospital and the emergency room of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, to which she was rushed after ingesting ^ rubbing alcohol. By the time the book was nearly finished, so was Kitty; home for Christmas in 1989, she was drinking nail polish remover, after-shave, hair spray, anything she could get her hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Public Life, Private Trouble | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS, folks. This one's going to be a nail-biter. Our bandit, President Bush, has served up a pretty sinister plan for getting his man on the Supreme Court, and it looks like he's got our hero--the Senate--in a pretty tough spot...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Bush the Bandit and Desperado Dave | 7/31/1990 | See Source »

Such success is almost assured by paying attention to the details; like introducing seemingly unimportant elements of Daniel's character--such as his love of wine and his wine cellar, the nail gun and his rotting wood floor--at the beginning of the film and having them figure prominently in its final climax; and like having victims and supporting actors that actually resemble real human beings. But most signifigantly, Arachnophobia possesses a hero audiences can believe...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: What's Giant, Venezuelan, and Introduces Itself To You When You Open a California Coffin? | 7/27/1990 | See Source »

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