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Word: stink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...victory for Boston would be even more devastating to its baseball culture than a win for Chicago. At least for the Cubs, this year is an anomaly, and thus something to cherish. Usually, the Cubs stink. So, a World Series drive should be celebrated...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: March to the Sea: A nightmare series | 10/8/2003 | See Source »

...expansion team with, in those pre-Toronto Raptors days, the dumbest team name ever conceived. Not only did the Mets have a mascot that was just a baseball with a face drawn on it, but they named the mascot Mr. Met. Everyone knew the Mets were going to stink, they knew they were going to stink, and they stank with wild abandon. Despite the losses, they ranked sixth in attendance that year. They were all ridiculous fun, the UPN of their time, and they pitched like they were pitching the premise for Homeboys in Outer Space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beautiful Losers? Not These Bums | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...expansion team with, in those pre-Toronto Raptors days, the dumbest team name ever conceived. Not only did the Mets have a mascot that was just a baseball with a face drawn on it, but they named the mascot Mr. Met. Everyone knew the Mets were going to stink, they knew they were going to stink, and they stank with wild abandon. Despite the losses, they ranked sixth in attendance that year. They were all ridiculous fun, the UPN of their time, and they pitched like they were pitching the premise for Homeboys in Outer Space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beautiful Losers? Not These Bums | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...qualities associated with great driving--steely concentration, hand-eye coordination, a killer instinct--fairly stink of machismo. Think of a film about women and cars, and you get Thelma & Louise, in which the leads' big act of defiance is to drive off a cliff to their deaths. Actresses do show up in the car-chase genre, but they are essentially decals, irrelevant to the movies' obsessions. (The only genuinely sexual moment in 2F2F is when two new cars are unveiled for Walker and Tyrese. Their eyes bug out as if Britney and Halle had just stripped for them.) Car-movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Of Vroooom | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...lesson in all this appears to be that every coach is permitted a down year or two or four—just not one as bad as Hill’s. It’s OK to stink, just not this much...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life of Brian: Ivies' Motto: Just Go .500, Baby | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

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