Word: slunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since being bounced from the Senate last fall, New York Republican AL D'AMATO has hardly slunk into oblivion. Instead, he's leading the rewarding life of pundit-about-town, with the requisite gig as a commentator (Fox News Channel) and rumored romance with a blond (Sex in the City author Candace Bushnell). Last week he announced his latest venture: "Dear Alfonse," a political advice column for George magazine, the publication edited by JOHN KENNEDY JR. Asked who could use some advice these days, D'Amato offers, "The House Republicans. I'd tell them not to let their emotions carry...
...Time employee, dressed in a black outfit the size of a bandana, kicked off the routines with a disturbingly amazing voice. We're talking serious vocal cords of gospel proportions. Our anticipated moment in the spotlight did, in fact, come: "Eloise Austin and Joanna Hootnick, youuuuu're up!" We slunk up to the microphone and looked at our shoelaces while our two devoted Harvard fans whistled and heckled. We both gave each other a "what-the-hell-do-we-have-to-lose" glance and busted out with our tone-deaf version of "Build Me up Buttercup," complete with shoop-shoop...
...Time employee, dressed in a black outfit the size of a bandana, kicked off the routines with a disturbingly amazing voice. We're talking serious vocal cords of gospel proportions. Our anticipated moment in the spotlight did, in fact, come: "Eloise Austin and Joanna Hootnick, youuuuu're up!" We slunk up to the microphone and looked at our shoelaces while our two devoted Harvard fans whistled and heckled. We both gave each other a "what-the-hell-do-we-have-to-lose" glance and busted out with our tone-deaf version of "Build Me up Buttercup," complete with shoop-shoop...
...class or because he wrote it based on the class. "He said he was the single support for his impecunious undergraduate son and he told them that without the royalty checks from his book, I couldn't shop in the Patagonia catalogue," Matt remembers. As his friends laughed, Matt slunk down in his seat...
...July 31, a six-year-old camper was pulled from the jaws of a mountain lion by a 16-year-old counselor on a hiking trail near Missoula, Mont. The animal slunk away and was later tracked and killed; the child suffered puncture wounds and numerous scratches. In April, in Villa Park, Calif., which is about six miles east of Disneyland, a cougar climbed into a pine tree in Alice Thompson's backyard, leaped onto her front porch and nudged at the door before trying to jump a fence into a neighboring yard. Animal-control officials killed...