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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at ourselves and take a look in the mirror and find out where it is because we can't keep doing this," Moore said. "I think we'll have to sit down as a team and talk about it and hopefully be ready to go next weekend...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Falls to Stirling, Brown, 4-2 | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...Noah and I, I'm reminded of the Muppets," Rollert says. "You know, the two old cronies that sit in the top of the theatre and don't know when to leave...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Politics Proves Seton-Redmond Undoing | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...Tuesday, we took our PT test, to meet the minimum standards for boot camp (for men, 13 push-ups, 17 sit-ups and a one-mile run in under eight minutes). Everyone passed except the asthmatic (who gets to run again) and the guy with the heart condition (he's gone, after - he says - his heart almost exploded at one third of a mile). Yours truly came in with a surprising 6:20 (and this was a road race, no track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Boots Weren't Made for Marching | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

Drill sergeants must have huddled for generations over precisely what exercises, in precisely what order, cause young men to scream the loudest. The sergeant, a very funny guy when he wanted to be, had the routine by heart: push-ups, sit-ups, bicycle kicks, squats of all varieties, shoulder touches, arm twirls - more than I can remember, until the lifting of hand over head was quite nearly impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Boots Weren't Made for Marching | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

...very much. What I didn't enjoy was waiting for the host to finish asking the question. For the first question of the show, the host asked, "Steve Martin played a wild and crazy..." I buzzed in with "somewhere near Romania." This premature gesticulation caused me not only to sit in a corner and wear a dunce cap for the first three episodes but to do things never before seen on a game show. When the host began a question with the words "Venus flytrap..." I emitted a low, guttural noise, which sounded like reee. I had started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Do Not Want to Be a Millionaire | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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