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Word: swooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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SOME people are naturally happy. Offer them an obstructed-view seat at Fenway Park and they will swoon over the architectural beauty of the left field wall. Draft them to fight in Iraq and they will come back singing the joys of desert warfare. Send them to Harvard, and they will join the Crimson Key Society...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: . . .and More Than You Bargained for | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...post of writing CBS radio commentary for Dan Rather, she joined the Reagan Administration in 1984 because "I felt like Mr. Roberts -- I was missing the war!" But even as her speechwriting success won her greater entree to Reagan, he remained characteristically aloof and impenetrable. Like a teenager in swoon, Noonan treasured each presidential wink; when Reagan wrote "Very Good" on a speech, Noonan taped the words to her blouse as a badge of honor. Yet when a burned- out Noonan left the White House in 1986, her nemesis, chief of staff Don Regan, denied her the courtesy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Jane Austen of Speeches | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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