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Word: sapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same producers as Cruel. The album, however, doesn't pack the wallop to distinguish it from other slick R. & B. records on the charts these days. Something in Common, a ballad Brown shares with his wife Whitney Houston is typical of the problem: short on juice but heavy on sap. New jack may not be exhausted, but right now Bobby is fresh out of new ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Sep. 21, 1992 | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...made where sex is involved? Will a lover sap the artistic flame essential to the creation of great works? One looks at O'Keefe's work and thinks not; the passion there is unmitigated and uncompromised...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Flawless Acting, Careful Direction Give Passion and Sensitivity to Georgia | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

This clearly shows that the poor sap "Grunwald," perhaps being held hostage by the junta in the basement of the Lampoon castle, was trying to inject a message for us into what he was being forced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grunwald Did Not Act Alone | 1/24/1992 | See Source »

SOME CLAIM that ending overlap will sap academic programs, cut into faculty and staff salaries, force layoffs, threaten need-blind admissions, discourage growth. But no one really knows what the effects of competition will be, primarily because the people with access to the data are under investigation and are unwilling to talk. But most indications are that free market competition will benefit students and promote the colleges' academic missions...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: Nix Overlap for Good | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

This year, the 'Poonsters took matters into their own hands. Jack Nicholson-like, they wielded fierce axes and began their cruel torture of the tree. In their criminal adrenaline frenzy, they inflicted cuts up to six inches deep. As sap slowly seeped from the defenseless victim, the 'Poonsters celebrated their vicious and cowardly victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop the Vegicide | 12/12/1990 | See Source »

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