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Word: woodenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doll-size wooden rocking chair that sways from left to right instead of from front to back 2. An ice bucket 3. A copy of the 10th Amendment 4. A white pickup truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Before the stadium was built, spectators had to sit on old wooden bleachers where there was a constant danger of fire and collapse. Firefighters were present during all events...

Author: By Eunice C. Park, | Title: History Fills Harvard Stadium | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

...know, that sport where some guy stands on a platform and lets go of this wooden bird that has a dart in its mouth and the bird swings down on a rope and hits a target and everyone cheers (boy that's a mouthful...

Author: By Brian T. Garibaldi, | Title: Fall Classic | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

...Harvard, I have majored in sleep. REM. Snoozeville. I have zonked out in so many classes, I can't even remember all of them. Big classes, small classes, sections. Lecture halls with chairs so comfy that it's even better than your own bed, or classrooms with benches so wooden that I wake up with three fewer vertebrae in my back. Good professors, boring professors, weird professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Sleep in Class | 10/12/1996 | See Source »

Denis Reggie, Senator Kennedy's brother-in-law, played the Lord Snowdon role of official photographer. With the ceremony completed, the couple returned down the aisle together, and Reggie took the now famous picture of them descending the chapel's simple wooden steps, John kissing the hand of his beaming bride. They walked over to a nearby fence, and Bessette stood next to Kennedy with her arms around him. Then she felt a tug on her bouquet. A wild horse had stretched its neck over the fence and was nibbling the flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BY GEORGE, HE GOT MARRIED! | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

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