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Word: upping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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I love Sherri for the way she embraces everyone with open arms, and how she genuinely cares about everyone with whom she comes into contact. I love how Sherri will be the first one to notice how others are feelings--sharing in their happiness and comforting them in their sorrow...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Unreading Period | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

FM: What did you do when you were in there--sit down or stand up?

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In The Bathroom With B.J.: An Interview With The Delta Stow-away | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

Others wear '80s pants so tight they can feel them. The pants force them to suck in their stomachs and sit straight, straight up all class period.

Author: By N.o. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Lemon Sours and Tight Jeans: Techniques for Staying Awake in Lecture | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

Any food that induces tears can also be helpful. Super-sour lemon candies pucker cheeks and make eyes round. Powdered seeds of rare, blistering Thai peppers can easily be concealed as a light red dust on the end of a pencil. An innocent chewing of the eraser will give the...

Author: By N.o. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Lemon Sours and Tight Jeans: Techniques for Staying Awake in Lecture | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

Julia S. Oh '03 recommends a less painful and more meditative approach: "Mindfulness. I really pay attention to just sitting there. How my chair feels. How the professor's voice goes up and down and how it rasps."

Author: By N.o. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Lemon Sours and Tight Jeans: Techniques for Staying Awake in Lecture | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

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