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Word: weird (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fenway park is the most revered park in baseball because of its traditional-style, weird dimensions, and inviting Green Monster. Throw in the gloriously tragic history of the Red Sox and the sports craziness of Boston, and it becomes clear my any red-blooded American kid dreams of clearing the 33-foot high wall in left...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Dreams | 4/19/1995 | See Source »

...think it was threatening for some of thepeople on the Medical School faculty to have oneof their own publishing this book, going on TV andtalking about this very weird phenomenon," Millersaid...

Author: By Lana Israel, | Title: Mack's Research Is Under Scrutiny | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...Farley first took a swipe at the Speaker's penchant for handing out reading lists, offering up one that included a children's book as well as novels by Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins. Imitating Gingrich's rapid-fire delivery, Farley then pushed through bills declaring all Democrats officially weird and moving the nation's capital to Atlanta. He also proposed that Sonny Bono sing I've Got You, Newt, but the freshman Congressman, in a rare display of stage shyness, politely declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 17, 1995 | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

West, a lifelong migraine sufferer, was used to weird sensations in his head. So when he felt a familiar woozy pain coming on, he downed a tumbler of Cognac and went to bed. The next morning his breakfast coffee dribbled down his chin and his words turned to mush. These symptoms of a mild stroke quickly cleared, but not the cause: cardiac arrhythmias that required the planting of a pacemaker in his chest. West variously refers to this retrofit as his "titanium tit" and that "little lead soldier ... making a small battuta on my suet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VERBAL MEDICINE | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...book in December, inside she found a hand-written note from Berendt, telling her to call Random House for a free trip to Savannah. She paid her visit last week. Berendt, who guided her around town, only worried that Matthews was not sufficiently exposed to the city's weird side. "She saw the beauty of Savannah," he says, "but I'm not sure she got the bizarreness of it.'' For that, of course, she can simply reread the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN GOTHIC, INC. | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

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