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Word: swears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to (seemingly) stand for. In your old Sassy days, you preached independence, freedom from conformity and that beauty was in the eye of the beholder. Less than 10 years ago, you gave us 13-year-old girls stuck in rural Wisconsin a glimmer of hope, a pinky-swear promise that the world could be a funny, smart and even sexy place. You and your writers told us that 14-year-old boys with buck teeth and hard-ons weren't worth our mental energy, that it was more important to rock through school, hang out with our girlfriends...

Author: By Jessica A. Nordell, | Title: Will the Real Jane Pratt Please Stand Up? | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...airport, I swear I see one of my professors with an earpiece but think nothing of it. However, as I board my flight, the attendant rushes at me with a needle screaming, "Die traitor...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Seeking Asylum at the Harvard of the West | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...pooch for an interview. At the end of his stay, Schwartz's dog received a "report card" detailing his social acumen. (He scored high marks.) "We basically wanted a houselike place for him to stay while we were away for two weeks," says a slightly sheepish Schwartz. "But I swear, I really do know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fido Gets Phobic | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...Once in a while a kid may sing that he wants to be "your lover," but it's all within the realm of I Want to Hold Your Hand. As always, the groups are selling themselves as training boyfriends--sexy, crushable, but no Usher, say, who might use a swear word now and then or want to go too far too fast, if you catch our drift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Poppa's Bubble Gum Machine | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...numb fingers to inflamed wrists. In fact, I decided to try out Naturally-Speaking Mobile because of Dragon Systems Inc.'s history of making great voice-recognition software, NaturallySpeaking Preferred, for PCs. I've known lots of reporters with burned-out wrists who now dictate their stories and who swear by Dragon's products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Dictator | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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