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Word: ruts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friends" examines the pain associated with losing contact with old friends, but in the end hope for the rejuvenation of those relationships. "Only One" looks at boredom and anxiety associated with the fear of taking risks. Buttercup dig reflectively into their subjects and don't fall into the rut of writing empty love songs...

Author: By John T. Reuland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Buttercup Shows Innovation, Reflection With `Love' | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Ellis Cose's Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World (HarperCollins; 260 pages; $24) is an attempt to break out of what the author calls "the well-worn rut into which racial reflections and conversations commonly fall." A pit of conceptual quicksand would be more like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: COOL TALK ON A HOT TOPIC | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

After that disappointment, the Crimson (9-17-1, 3-12-1 ECAC) fell into a rut that turned its season into a rebuilding one, plain and simple...

Author: By Brian T. Garibaldi, | Title: Injuries, Losses Doom Icewomen To Ninth Place in ECAC Standings | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...people who abuse one substance so often abuse another. Fowler likens the effect to creating a biochemical pathway or channel: "A drug may leave an imprint in the brain, so that the next drug becomes more pleasurable than it would otherwise." In short, the brain gets into a rut that just grows deeper and deeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW SMOKERS GET HOOKED | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

After playing to a discouraging tie against the weaker Saints, the Crimson fell into a rut that turned its season into a rebuilding one, plain and simple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Hockey Endures Difficult Season | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

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