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Word: scarlet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Scarlet Knight point guard Cappie Pondexter would not let the Crimson get any closer, as she scored 11 of Rutgers’ final 15 points on the way to a 77-70 victory last night...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rutgers Too Much For W. Hoops | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...hotel keeps three horses and a small menagerie that includes civets, rabbits, goats, geese and a large turkey named Lurker. Fresh from the wilds, I strode confidently in among the animals only to watch as the turkey's flopping wattle swelled and changed color from purple to enraged scarlet. "You'd better run," was the laconic advice of Annie, who looks after the animals. I leapt over the paddock fence just in time. So much for animal adventures. After that, I was happy to confine myself to the hotel's broad lawns, the pool and the beach (though my children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise Isles | 10/19/2003 | See Source »

Meanwhile, at NYU, she has wasted no time incorporating her love of literature into major projects. She recently adapted The Scarlet Letter into a play and wrote a book called The Birth of Pleasure, using both psychology and literature as evidence to show how pleasure is associated with pain in Western culture...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Trailblazer Takes Off | 6/6/2003 | See Source »

...feel like I have a scarlet ‘H’ burned into my forehead. Are people going to automatically know I went to Harvard...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Learning to Live Outside the Gates | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...show's flimsy premise is that one member of the comedy duo, tired of being the overlooked straight man, wants to quit the act and put on a play he has written called "A Tight Squeeze for the Scarlet Pimple." This provides an excuse for a lot of dopey vaudeville patter, bad puns ("I Camembert it"), goofy songs, silly walks and men wearing dresses. Typical gag: the show's producer, Mike Nichols, is lampooned onstage as "Mike Tickles"; each time his name is mentioned, the fellow is tickled. This is the kind of aggressively lowbrow humor that American critics generally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway and Beyond: Three Shows That Probably Won't Save the Great White Way | 4/5/2003 | See Source »

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