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Word: skipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Gicewicz and Collins decided to skip last semester and come back this fall for a final season of varsity football eligibility...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Hungry for One More Season on the Football Field | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

...Names don't mean anything," Silverman says. "I have met so many people and they come up to me in the Yard and say "Hey, Jake," and I don't have a clue what their name is, but if you wait too long to ask you just have to skip...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Getting to Know You? | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

Both Gicewicz and Collins decided to skip last semester and come back this fall for a final season of varsity football eligibility...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Hungry for One More Season on the Football Field | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

Both Gicewicz and Collins decided to skip last semester and come back this fall for a final season of varsity football eligibility...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Hungry for One More Season on the Football Field | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...will probably linger. Journalists publicize any prominent reporter's willful lapse from factuality because they consider it uncommon, hence newsworthy; the irony is that the coverage prompts many readers to assume that such failings are widespread. Many a journalist has felt the temptation, as Malcolm allegedly did, either to skip the drudgery of poring over notes or, having perused them in vain, to concoct the perfect quote to make the point. Such behavior may be legal. But as every journalist knows, it is, in Malcolm's own words, "morally indefensible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Right to Fake Quotes | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

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