Word: stood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Somebody gave him a trumpet and he stood up and played 'Ten Thousand Men of Harvard,'" Everett said...
Harvard crushed Indiana State in the meet, and the Indiana team protested the outcome. They claimed that the oil had impaired their swimmers' performance. The victory stood, and the band has been land-locked ever since...
...slopes at Killington, loomed in the background. Although the place was not filled to its 1,700-ton capacity, the piles upon piles of colored trash bags, dismembered lamps, decapitated dolls and faded clothing were all quite daunting in their abundance. Over in the corner where the appliances stood waiting to be picked up, mangled chrome reflected and embraced "eggshell" refrigerators, "ivory" stoves and "midnight" dishwashers. I moved closer to get a better look and up flew a dozen pigeons from behind one of the stoves. A minute later, they decided to swoop back down and continue their scavenging...
...Vaux: The 70s were the best by far. People have mocked the 70s incessantly since the fall of disco, but the passing years have made it clear that it was a quality decade. Both the music and the fashions have stood the test of time, which can't be said of the 80s--just watch any old episode of Dynasty or The Fall Guy to see how horrendous the outfits and hairdos were. And it was a painful time for music, too--sure, there were one or two good groups, and I like 80s classics like...
...Zittrain details a bit of history. "Pornography on the Internet all started with ASCII Art." ASCII art are the pictures often passed along in email forwards composed with only what's available on a keyboard, he explains. "They used periods, commas, dashes and question marks to draw. If you stood back far enough, you could get a decent picture...