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Word: set (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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With only one receiver in the game and the offense aligned in a short-yardage set, Menick carried twice for nine yards. Wilford then ran a quarterback sneak for three yards to give Harvard its crucial first down...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Paradise Almost Lost | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...Jimmy Fund was born five decades ago, when a 12-year-old cancer patient, known to the world as "Jimmy," asked for a television set to watch baseball games...

Author: By Eric S. Barr, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Skaters Dazzle, Amuse in 30th Evening With Champions | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...judges awarded Adams for its music--with original lyrics set to Disney songs--and Pforzheimer for its dramatic expertise...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spirit Unleashed As House War Ends | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...month, standing at 23% to Bush's 43% in one poll. But McCain is even more critical of the G.O.P. than Bush, so Bush's words could conceivably help him fend off McCain. Forbes will label Bush a closet tax-and-spend liberal in a massive TV assault set to begin late this year, and Bush is preparing for the attack. Sources told TIME that Bush held focus groups last week in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire, showing gauzy biographical ads as well as mock attacks anticipating what Forbes will throw at him: that Bush is not a real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Triangulator | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...pattern isn't new. Last year the Texas G.O.P. refused to let the Log Cabin Republicans, a national organization of gay G.O.P. members, set up a booth at the party's convention. Bush spoke out on behalf of the Log Cabin, saying it "should be treated with dignity and respect." But when the Texas legislature considered a hate-crime bill with special penalties for crimes against gays, he opposed it. He promised to veto any bill repealing the state's homosexual-sodomy law, and he supported legislation that would ban gay adoption and even take children away from gay couples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Triangulator | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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