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Word: seesaws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sloppy seesaw contest that featured 19lead changes and 30 turnovers, Harvard hung on,making 22-of-25 free throws on the evening...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: M. Hoopsters Officially Done | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

With the Eagles smelling blood in this seesaw affair, Duffell settled down, freezing Durkin with a change for the second out and blowing a fastball by the hardluck Quirk for his first career save...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib and Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS.S | Title: Baseball Twice Edges Out B.C | 4/15/1998 | See Source »

...trumps sentiment. The sport of speed skating is at one of those pivotal junctures, with good old tradition being upended by a Dutch contraption called the clap skate. Unlike the conventional skate heel, the heel of the clap skate's boot detaches from the blade like a one-way seesaw. The skater's heel lifts off the blade, lengthening the blade's contact time on the ice, then the blade snaps back to its original position with a noisy "clap." The result: 16 world records fell in a two-month period--some by more than a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: Olympic Insider | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

Harvard, which lost a seesaw struggle to Dartmouth, 5-4, on Nov.21, rebounded to stifle Boston College, 3-1, the next...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Icewomen Visit Middlebury | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

...equation suddenly seesaw the other way? Partly because clinical trials reveal only the most obvious side effects; the heart-valve changes discovered over the summer do not initially cause visible symptoms in most patients. Also, many doctors went overboard, giving Redux and fen/phen to patients who were merely overweight, not obese, a violation of the FDA and drug-company prescription criteria that couldn't help skewing the risk-benefit ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOOD MOLECULE | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

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