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Word: trust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although it would be hunky-dory for us to realize the one college vision, I don't trust Harvard to "actively support and promote women's issues...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Radcliffe Must Live | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...noteworthy character development and provides a profound, albeit tacit, discussion of language and meaning--all compensating for an overly transparent style. Maybe Lethem's next works will stray, stylistically, from the clarity that one of his epigraphs calls for, quoting none other than John Wayne: "I don't trust ambiguity." Ambiguity plagues words for Pella; perhaps it should begin to spill into Lethem's prose as well...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Identity and Ambiguity: Letham's Portrait of the West | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...remembers many quality hours spent in the Greenough laundry room. When it comes down to practice room access, "the Saturday 1 p.m. to 4:15 is a pathetic gesture," laments composer David Salvage '01. Likewise, Kar-mun Woo '01 finds it "sad and rather insulting that Harvard can't trust us enough to give us access to practice rooms without somebody there to patrol...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Is There Any Glory in Avoiding the Conservatory? Yo-Yo Ma '76 Did It, and You Can Too | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...anti-Bolshevik policies had failed. By espousing anti-Nazi policies in his wilderness years between 1933 and 1939, he ensured that when the moment of final confrontation between Britain and Hitler came in 1940, he stood out as the one man in whom the nation could place its trust. He had decried the prewar appeasement policies of the Conservative leaders Baldwin and Chamberlain. When Chamberlain lost the confidence of Parliament, Churchill was installed in the premiership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winston Churchill | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...airport," he recalls. "I really didn't have enough English. I meant to say, 'How are you?' Instead I said, 'How old are you?' And I have a very loud voice." From there it was off to Harvard and then four years working for Bankers Trust in New York City and Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Globalization: Get Rich Quick | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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