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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure was a three-day blow, replete with huffing and puffing and plenty of buffeting, lots of hot air and even some gloom and doom. There was nowhere to hide from its primal force; nothing to do but gawk, and murmur in hushed tones, and wait for it all to be over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floyd and Ft. Worth: A Tale of Two Stories | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...wait-listed. But without any other place to go--Thorpe did not apply anywhere else--he attended a local college for a year. Eventually, he transferred to Harvard...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Dropout Settles in at Drive-In | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...while Thorpe says Harvard was well worth the wait, at the end of his sophomore year he took a leave of absence and returned to Pennsylvania. There he joined the local Teamsters union and worked at a truck terminal...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Dropout Settles in at Drive-In | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...material was angry, real, so funny it hurt. Colin Powell will never be Vice President, Rock cracked, because white people know what will happen: "If we had a black Vice President right now, I couldn't wait to kill the President." He argued that O.J. Simpson got off because of his fame, not his skin color: "If O.J. drove a bus, he wouldn't even be O.J.--he'd have been Orenthal the bus-driving murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

SOFTWARE WARS Sun Microsystems is giving away an entire suite of Microsoft-compatible office software, from word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs to calendars and e-mail. Download the free 65-MB StarOffice at www.sun.com (this may take a while) or pay $10 for a CD. Mac users must wait for the universally compatible Web-based version, Star-Portal, to offer the same applications and store their data online, creating truly portable desktops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Sep. 13, 1999 | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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