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Word: reverting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, surely it is preferable to have television dramas and sitcoms addressing important dilemmas now and then -- single motherhood, for example, or drug addiction or wife battering. Better that than to revert entirely to Gomer Pyle and Gilligan's Island and My Little Margie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folklore in a Box | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...addition to the structural changes, Zewinski says that the window trim on Weld, Grays Hall and Matthews Hall will revert to their historically accurate colors. Weld's windows will be painted black and maroon, the window frames on Grays will be given a teal wash, and Matthews will be highlighted with mustard yellow tones...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Back to the Yard | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

...addition to the structural changes, Zewinski says that the window trim on Weld, Grays Hall and Matthews Hall will revert to their historically accurate colors. Weld's windows will be painted black and maroon, the window frames on Grays will be given a teal wash, and Matthews will be highlighted with mustard yellow tones...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Back to the Yard | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

...like the first time I rode the Cyclone at Coney Island. I was strangely excited, and a little nauseous at the same time." She: "I've always found his type very attractive, but I'm in a dangerously vulnerable place right now.") Conversing with each other, however, they revert to adolescent stammering. Jack tries to ask Wally for a date: "Would you like to have dinner with me tonight? O.K., O.K., that was too much, too formal, too crazy. Want to eat with me tonight? I mean, I have to eat, you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Generation Gap | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

...have spent tens of billions of dollars for technical collection systems that will return information to us on almost a real-time basis, and then in Washington we revert to a 19th century approach to dealing with that information by holding it overnight before we can present it to policymakers. We can never compete with CNN and don't intend to, but I want an arrangement where we can provide updated intelligence information throughout the day to policymakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We See a World of More, Not Fewer Mysteries: Robert Gates | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

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