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Word: tomboys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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What else she does: Sorts mail for 15 hours a week and tutors a 12-year-old tomboy through Mather House HAND...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Basketball and Life | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...teacher was a disaster as a child growing up in New Jersey. "I did very poorly in school," she recalls. Her teachers and parents were constantly on her case for rowdy behavior. "They just felt I was being bad -- too loud, too physical, too everything." A rebellious tomboy with few friends, she saw a psychologist at age 10, "but nobody came up with a diagnosis." As a teenager she began prescribing her own medication: marijuana, Valium and, later, cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHAVIOR: Attention Deficit Disorder: Life in Overdrive | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

What I forgot, in my brief shock of discovery, was that I'd never been a big fan of the color before. It wasn't that I was a tomboy--I was too wimpy for that. And it's not that I didn't do my share of pink activities, playing with Barbie dolls and with pink games like Candyland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thoughts from the Heart | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

...sport. For one period of a preseason skirmish, Manon Rheaume, 20, was in goal for the N.H.L.'s Tampa Bay Lightning, and her bosses say she has a chance to make the team. Can her achievement be a harbinger of gender integration? We bet there's a Little League tomboy phenom who could play shortstop for the Yankees someday. (And soon, please!) We also bet Oprah Winfrey could take George Foreman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best of 1992 | 1/4/1993 | See Source »

...tells it, Dunne's decorated athletic career emerged from the confluence of two factors in her life: her visual impairment and her stepfather. Even at a young age, Dunne, a Chicago native, was restless for activity, and was a self-described tomboy. "My mother made sure that when I lost my sight I didn't stop that," she tells...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DUNNE DEAL | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

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