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Word: switched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When it came time for the ceremonial switch-over dinner, sentimental T.J. presented us with a cardboard box and Drake just didn't show up. Feel the love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...very, very drunk. We switch instruments. I have no idea how to play the tuba. None whatsoever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Introducing: Fifteen's 15 | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...April 14, 1994, when, at the shady sounding, acronym-needy McDonald's Biennial Worldwide Convention, then chairman Michael Quinlan announced that the company had passed the 100-billion-burgers mark and somehow missed it. Deciding to focus on the future, he advised the 25,000 franchise owners to switch to the Carl Saganesque "billions and billions." I didn't buy one word of it. So I stopped at my McDonald's on 34th Street in Manhattan, which has a 99 BILLION SERVED sign. Manager Eddie Correa said he was unfamiliar with the Biennial Edict and hadn't thought about changing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Somebody Say McLiar? | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...little more subdued in this album, and the band seems more removed from the music, in part because of the introduction of new computerized effects, but the basic good stuff is still there. The band's best and perhaps most distinguishing feature--the surprising little vignettes of sound which switch you, with no attempt at subtlety, into a deliciously different musical genre for a few bars--makes itself felt in force: there's a '90s-style funk surprise in "Ode to Maybe" and even a hint of opera in "Red Summer Sun." Once again, the album demonstrates 3EB's versatility...

Author: By Benjamin Cowan, | Title: Album Review: Blue by Third Eye Blind | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...rudeness somehow throws a switch in our heads and turns us into people we are not. Suddenly we are screaming, cursing, falling to our knees and waving both extended middle fingers into the air, howling like a beast...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Don't Be Rude | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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