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Word: shamed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book so heavy that it takes two librarians to move it. Just such a tome rests quietly in the bottom of Houghton Library, a warehouse for unusual and delicate writings that hides many a freakish volume behind its upright exterior. This ruskie book puts "War and Peace" to shame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

Project Manager Randall also disagreed withopponents of the renovation, pointing out "a wholegroup of people think it's a crying shame that wehaven't done it since...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Memorial Hall To Be Topped By New Tower | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...competent yet uninspired. The 20 or so poems may be juvenilia, but there is neither spark nor promise to the lines, too full of alliteration, all too devoid of depth. "Fram'd in the front of forlorn hope past all recovery,/I stayless stand, to abide the shock of shame and infamy..." The praise Oxford received as a poet may simply have issued from the mouths of sycophants hungry for patronage. Says Alan H. Nelson, a University of California professor who is writing books about Shakespeare and De Vere: "The Earl of Oxford was perhaps the most egotistical and self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: The Bard's Beard? | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...single hope unifies Primal Screamers: that their faces and bodies will never be linked. Only the Harvard University Band-induced bottleneck of shame, the ice-paved track and sharpshooting FM photographers stand in their way. Are other co-leaguers as willing to bare all? Consider...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: As It Were: The Naked Roundup | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...creaky lectern in front of a crowd of fidgeting guys wearing see-through earphones and bad ties, their heavily made-up faces hidden as they hang their heads in shame and prurient interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Living Foolishly | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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