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Word: snickeringly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lines to every Three Stooges movie ever made. And when the teacher would tell him to "quiet down," and accuse him of acting like a two-year-old, he would always come up with something like "I resemble that remark! (nook nook nook)" and the whole class would snicker...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Ten-SHUN! | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

...spring ritual of self-congratulation. In the packed Los Angeles Music Center they will hear a former B-movie swain and Screen Actors Guild president named Ronald Reagan deliver an address on the theme "Film Is Forever." They will bestow Academy Awards on their most envied colleagues. They will snicker as professional actors flub a three-line introductory speech. For the benefit of 80 million TV-watching Americans, the movie people will put on a spectacle that combines the solemnity of graduation day at West Point with the giddy naivete of a greasers' sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Hollywood: Dead or Alive? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...smaller agencies or face derision from the cynical electorate. Either way, he contends the GOP will lose. "It's one thing to be out in the bushes taking pot shots, and another to be in government with your hand on the till, ah...tiller," Tsongas says with an abrupt snicker...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Saving the World Without Easy Answers | 2/20/1981 | See Source »

SOME WOULD CALL even this an optimistic scenario; surely, they say, we will all be blown to pieces in some Armageddon choreographed from reinforced concrete bunkers in the Urals and the Rockies, and perhaps they are right. Others will snicker and say that life goes on; for a while it will, very much as normal. Sooner rather than later, though, the danger will become apparent, a danger so contrary it manifests itself in believable ways only when it becomes too powerful to be checked. The lights will not turn off all at once some morning, but the newspapers will hint...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Crashing | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...snicker at the record, or at his subsequent career of uninterrupted mediocrity with the Baltimore Colts and San Diego Chargers; the guy could play. Yet Domres symbolized the plight of the Columbia football player, those beefy residents of Morningside Heights, who last won more than three games in 1963. They are expected to lose-they...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Crimson to Grapple With Lions in Grid Opener | 9/20/1980 | See Source »

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