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Word: uncrosses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mothers across the nation can uncross their fingers. Chris O'Donnell, the sort of movie star most moms would want their daughters to bring home, is engaged. His intended is longtime girlfriend Caroline Fentress, a teacher and the sister of O'Donnell's roommate from back in the days when he was a fresh-faced marketing major at Boston College who happened to act in movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 9, 1996 | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

When a book makes headlines months before its scheduled release, the publisher and author can normally uncross their fingers and alert their accountants. Is such euphoria warranted even when the headlines are rotten? That question concerns Simon & Schuster and Joe McGinniss, the best-selling writer (The Selling of the President, 1968; Fatal Vision) whose forthcoming biography of Edward M. Kennedy, The Last Brother, has been prompting a blizzard of bad news. Biographic License? headlined the Washington Post. The New York Times put the matter, bluntly, on its front page: Kennedy Quotes in New Book Are Invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biography Or Soap Opera? | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

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