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Word: tailing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, being considerably brighter of eye and bushier of tail, I was enrolled in a research workshop which was supposed to be about comparative politics but which soon came to be known as "Tenure: The History of Desire" since a significant portion of class discussion was inevitably devoted to a discussion of tenure and the formulation of various strategies for achieving desired outcomes...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Academia Succumbs To Desire | 2/14/1995 | See Source »

...Crimson's dominating performance, which comes on the tail of a lack-luster 2-4 loss to Cornell Sunday, suggests that the effects of the two week exam-period layoff may be behind...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: W. Hockey Blanks Middlebury, 1-0 | 2/2/1995 | See Source »

...Ford's urging, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency provided Schweitzer with the optical scanner. One of its case officers gave him a hurry-up course in spy craft: Schweitzer learned emergency codes and signals and roamed northern Virginia shopping malls, practicing how to shake off a tail and how to retrieve messages from dead drops. Cover stories were rehearsed in case he was compromised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECRETS OF THE MUSEUM | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...Saturday afternoon. The parking lot is full with tail-gaters, some grilling steaks, frying fish or even eating grits...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: Football Games and Grits: Two Things You Can't Beat | 1/25/1995 | See Source »

...left with a damn lizard tail in your hand while its previous owner is sitting there laughing...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Catching a Lizard | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

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