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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Warren Beatty, star of the movies "Dick Tracy" and "Bulworth," took the ARCO Forum platform last night to voice his political views, while dispelling rumors about a run for the presidency in the upcoming election...

Author: By Benjamin M. Grossman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beatty Hints His Presidential Bid Unlikely | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...pepper into thin, elegant pieces, Harvey C. Mansfield '49 sips a glass of red wine a la Julia Child. "I have never made cupcakes before," he said, responding to a suggestion that they be served for dessert. "I once did baking powder biscuits." As a junior high schooler, Mansfield took Home Economics. "They taught us how to sew on a button," he recalls painfully. "This might be quite useful...for a man without a wife...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In the Kitchen with Prof. Mansfield | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...right, tracing the path we took earlier, and end up back near the checkout counter and the same ultra-attractive salespeople looking decidedly unenthused about our return. "Research shows that the further into a store you go, the more likely you are to buy something. And as you can see this setup very cleverly forces you to go further into the store, and therefore increases your chances of buying something...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Shopping with Prof. Schor | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Upon arrival, various Middle East employees directed me, apprehensively, out back to the white van in which Willis sat by himself, his girth filling much of the passenger's side. He took off his headphones and chastised an imagined "motherf----er" in the back of the van before punching himself in the head and immediately apologizing to me for doing so. A brief conversation ensued. He sold me a CD, "Dr. Wax." Willis then grabbed the back of my head and instructed me to say "Rah!," which I did, and then he head-butted me right on the enormous callus...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...estimated amount of time it took Walter Payton to run his NFL record 16,726 career yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Minutes | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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