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Word: skidding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...blessedly missing. The script by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) is smart, witty and lean. Wright's principal indulgences are visual, as in his 2007 film Atonement. He turns a neighborhood bar where a depressed Lopez pounds shots into something that glows like the inside of a vein, and makes Skid Row into a Hieronymus Bosch painting with grocery carts (using some of LA's estimated 60,000 homeless as extras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soloist: Elegy for Cello and Newspaper | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...libero position, sprained his ankle. With a depleted roster, the team’s performance on the offensive side was hampered, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time.The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for Harvard but ended a seven-game skid for Rutgers-Newark. And while the Crimson and the Scarlet Pioneers split the division title, the loss gave Rutgers-Newark the edge in a tie-breaker, allowing the team to claim the top seed in the upcoming EIVA Conference Championship. Harvard will enter the postseason as the second team representing...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Fails To Lock Up Outright Title | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

...sort of technology glitch must have occurred, for my roommate and I were given two adjacent cupboards under the pretense of a double. And the view from the cramped quarters inspired nothing but nostalgia in me—another year to be spent looking out on pavement and fading skid marks. Rereading the interhouse transfer policy for the umpteenth time, I accepted the fact that PfoHo was my unchangeable fate for a predetermined period. Nine months, in fact. Like the baby daddy of a pregnant Catholic schoolgirl, I had to stay with the carrier of my pfetus until I could...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suck It, Housing Lottery | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...However, as Harvard looks to build momentum after defeating Newbury and ending a two-game skid, Weintraub’s career effort against the Nighthawks demonstrates how much the team’s fate rides on the man at the helm...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weintraub Sets Winning Tone for Crimson | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Look who’s on a tough three-game skid and sitting near the bottom of the Ivies? Your Penn Quakers! And you know what, it will not be getting any easier for sophomore Tyler Bernardini and company. Brown has two players—junior Matt Mullery and sophomore Peter Sullivan—who work a lethal one-two combination for the Bears. I think the squad can get a game this season—just not this...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Ancient Eight in State of Disarray | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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