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Word: purrs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Block's Joey McIntyre in the lobby of an off-Broadway show. I told him he was the first boy I ever loved. He laughed and kind of smiled. This was the most gratifying moment of my life. 23. My friends say that when they shave my back, I purr like a walrus. 24. I don't understand what people see in the Godfather trilogy. 25. Sometimes I think pee smells like Cheerios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...roar of the Lions was reduced to a kitten’s purr Saturday, as No. 19 Harvard (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) pounded Columbia (1-7, 1-4), 42-28, in front of 12,437 fans at Harvard Stadium.Senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti led a relentless aerial attack on the Lions secondary, throwing for a career-high 376 yards and four touchdowns.He spread the yardage around generously, completing seven passes to sophomore Levi Richards for 103 yards and two touchdowns and six to junior Matt Luft for 110 yards and a score. It was the first time in 33 years...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Back in the Thick of Things | 11/9/2008 | See Source »

...fuzzy feeling inside. Here’s to those covers that are just nice eye candy. Yummy! DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter Beautiful, brown, doleful eyes look out from a tawny furry face and just seem to soothingly purr, “Everything’s going to be alright now that Dewey, the small-town library cat, is here.” Sitting on a book in front of shelves of other books, Dewey invites me to just curl up with him right here and fall into...

Author: By Anna E. Sakellariadis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BY ITS COVER | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

Consider the silver Volvo 940 station wagon, getting on in years and miles, but not yet spent. At certain moments—full of folks, lacing homeward through more or less verdant New England highlands—it seems almost joyful, purring the meaningful purr of a world-weary cat. Now, consider the capped and casual New Hampshire state trooper perched alongside Interstate 89 who, with a radar gun and a wave of his mighty hand, might snare that family vehicle just as Tony Soprano might spear a bit of veal on the end of a fork. We live...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Against Speed Traps | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...Menace first. Khrushchev banging his shoe at the U.N. is fine for newsreels, but Spielberg and Lucas (and screenwriters David Koepp and Jeff Nathanson) have something sexier in mind: Irina Spalko, played by Cate Blanchett with a feline purr and the fabulous posture of military-movie villains. Irina wants to cloud American minds by getting access to a secret technology that is concealed either in the Area 51 warehouse where Crystal Skull begins or in the remotest jungle mountains of Peru during the film's last hour. "We will change you, Mr. Jones," she proclaims. "We will turn you into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indy Fatigable | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

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