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Word: snookers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worldly ambitions are few. "I'm too big to fit into a Porsche," he muses. He'd like a snooker table. Oh, and a house in North Wales, "so I can fly home like a bird." The greatest satisfaction his financial success has brought him is helping his father buy the family farm. "They nurtured my talent when I didn't even know it," he says of his parents. "I was gently placed into this tradition." Here is a man who just may survive the scourge of celebrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERA: In The Lap of the Gods | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...years move in and to check out the renovations on last year's room in Hollis. On a whim, I knocked on my old door, introduced myself to the confused first-year inside, and told him his room was great. I'm jealous. He gets renovations; I get a snooker table. How do you play snooker, anyway...

Author: By John E. Stafford, | Title: A Dubious Welcome--to the Quad | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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