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Word: stomp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tradition," one undergraduate said as he watched the alumni parade across the green, "is what makes this place what it is." While the world has passed Dartmouth by, the people of this pristine, isolated world can still stomp their feet, insist they are "real," and pass the hip flask for another round...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard, Green Set for Battle of New Hampshire | 10/18/1980 | See Source »

...with his hoofs the correct answers to complex mathematical and verbal problems. In fact, as a German psychologist finally discerned, Clever Hans was picking up unintentional cues-changes in facial expression, breathing patterns and even eye-pupil size-from his questioner telling him when and how many times to stomp (or, more precisely, when to stop stomping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Are Those Apes Really Talking? | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...that blind and foolhardy script. Didn't anybody read it before they let Fosse do it? Or is it just that the people who did read it--businessmen, producers, wide-eyed girlfriends, musical comedy writers--had no taste? ("Bob, baby: That's deep.") Bob Fosse needs critics, not to stomp on the man, but to egg on the artist...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Gideon's Babble | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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