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Word: spoonful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...risotto is more than good enough, but she is glad for everything we set before her. The chapter in the child manual on finicky eaters does not apply to her: she licks her chops the moment the bib is tied; she digs into her risotto with profound gusto, a spoon in her left hand, grabbing fistfuls of food with her right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rice, the Bat, the Baby | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...basically rationalists, believing that the physical world and the images concocted by our subconscious mind are distinct and separate realities. Over the past hundred or so years, from the table-rapping seances of the 1880s to the playing of Mozart to plants in the 1960s to the spoon-bending ESP tricks of the '70s, we've come to consider that most paranormal interactions between these realms are either hoaxes or explainable by known physical factors. And yet we continue to play mind games with the physical world: whispering "Come on, baby" to the '84 Datsun grinding away on a frosty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Control Computers With Our Minds? | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

Boston Magazine also gave special recognition to some Harvard favorites. The magazine listed the defunct Tasty diner as a Boston Classic, eulogizing it as "the late, lamented, all-night greasy spoon, another victim of Harvard Square's decline into homogeneity." Harvard University and Yo-Yo Ma '76 were also declared "Boston Classics...

Author: By Maria S. Shim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Square Businesses Earn "Best of Boston" | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

Boston Magazine also gave special recognition to some Harvard favorites. The magazine listed the defunct Tasty diner as a Boston Classic, eulogizing it as "the late, lamented, all-night greasy spoon, another victim of Harvard Square's decline into homogeneity." Harvard University and Yo-Yo Ma '76 were also declared "Boston Classics...

Author: By Maria S. Shim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Square Businesses Win "Best of Boston" | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) responded to a University Park Hotel report of a "woman down." When the officer arrived, they found a Brookline resident lying down, in possession of two hypodermic syringes, a spoon and a small quantity of heroin...

Author: By Maria S. Shim and Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Police Log | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

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