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Word: snickers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps even Pete would admit that he takes himself a little too seriously in this slim volume. Certainly, he must snicker just a little when he rereads the last line of his preface: "Each story deals with one aspect of my struggle to discover what beauty really...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Townshend's Horse Fetish | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

When I try to explain the use of celestial imagery in Henry IV, my classmates snicker and giggle at each polysyllabic word I pronounce, as if they think I would be much more at home singing "Folsom Prison Blues" (which I do quite well, incidentally), than talking about literature. Worse are the people who think they have to explain everything to me slowly, as if I can't think faster than I talk...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Southern Discomfort | 4/6/1985 | See Source »

...Gary, Gary, Gary," preached one of the candidates. Then all of them started to snicker under their breaths. No one would give the Senator from Colorado the 95 cents for a single scoop of ice cream...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Take A Number | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...inside line on the meaning of life. Then again some of us run out of tingers when we try to count the number of times we saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Some of us laugh at just about every muscle twitch in John Cleese face. We even snicker at the very approximate "John Cleese imitation" attempted by his cohorts Michael Palen and Terry Jones (Palin sat on Jones's shoulders) before a screening last week of the troupe's latest cinematic venture...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Fishing for an Answer | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

...male cheerleaders are not without their critics either "Often when you fell another guy you're a cheerleader you get a little snicker in response." says Lreh. It's hard for some people here to deal with the last that men can lead cheers too. "But frch who comes from less, says that southerners view men as an integral part of cheerleading. Down south men do the cheers along with the girls, they just don't stand around and use the megaphones as we do for the most part here. It's just a different come potion what cheerleading...

Author: By Atony J. Blinken, | Title: Fun on the Sidelines | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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