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Word: sprang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...puck sprang loose to Dyment at the point, who aimed a slap shot at Prestifilippo's right post. Heron, in an effort to ensure the goal, redirected the shot past Prestifilippo, securing...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B.U. Blasts M. Hockey, 2-1 | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...Told that a man likes to wug, they will say yesterday he wugged. Children are not sponges; they're constantly creating sentences and words, never more clearly or charmingly than when they encounter the second flavor of verb, the quirky irregulars. The past tense of spring is sprang, but the past of cling is not clang but clung, and the past of bring is neither brang nor brung but brought. English has 180 irregulars, a ragtag list that kids simply must memorize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horton Heared a Who! | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Crimson bench, which had been silent for much of the third game, sprang to life as Harvard went on to score the next eight points to take an 8-2 lead...

Author: By David R. De remer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Knocks Off Quinnipiac in Four Games | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...about J.K. Rowling is she can't be a Muggle to have spun such a feast for the imagination as her Harry Potter books! I am in awe of Rowling's ability to create such a magical world of wizardry that seemingly sprang into her head (although I have a theory that she herself is a Hogwarts graduate!). I hope each of her future fabulous books brings her even greater success than the last. And long life, Harry Potter! MARYKATHRYN GIELISSE, AGE 13 Poughkeepsie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1999 | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...early '70s, but Bradley did not partake. He kept his head in his books. "If you asked him a direct question, he'd answer you," says former teammate Willis Reed. "But in terms of volunteering information? That was not Bill." When he met Ernestine, in 1969, the attraction sprang in part from the fact that she didn't care what he did for a living. They were wed in a Palm Beach ceremony that all but one of his teammates learned about in the newspaper. "If you want to keep something quiet," he explains, "you keep it quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Being Bradley | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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