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Word: taker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, with no clear frontrunner in the Ivy League race, the title-taker may just be the team that wants it most. From Penningroth's point of view, Harvard is definitely that team...

Author: By Brian D. Algra, | Title: Penningroth Hurdles Back From Injury to Contribute | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...chief Jordan Bonfante says it's the opening gambit in the California governor's plan to "portray himself as taking action as governor on these very issues that Dole is just talking about and compromising on in the Senate. Wilson wants to stake out the position of the action taker, rather than someone who just sits in Washington and can't get anything accomplished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WELFARE'S OUTSIDER | 9/6/1995 | See Source »

Lemmon's character goes from being the same and sober one of the pair--Curtis is the flamboyant, womanizing risk-taker--to a state of madcap abandon. There's a gleam in his eyes as he shakes a pair of maracas, or holds a rose between his teeth during a tango with Brown, that is nothing short of priceless. The tango scene is one of the greatest in comedy film history, and it works because of Lemmon...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Lemmon Heats Up ARTS FIRST | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...While You Were Sleeping" is a fairy tale starring Sandra Bullock as the princess, Peter Gallager as the sleeping prince and Bill Pullman as the man Bullock eventually discovers is her true love. Bullock plays a token taker on the Chicago El who, while admiring Gallager from afar, has never spoken to him. She saves Gallager's life in an accident that leaves him temporarily in a coma. His family, clustered around his bedside, mistakes Bullock for his fiance (a fiction she encourages) and we're off in a movie thatTIME movie reviewer Richard Schickelsays recaptures the true spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES. . . "WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING" | 4/21/1995 | See Source »

...fuss about being the council's second-in-charge and official attendance taker...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: In Council Elections, Race Is for Second | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

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