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Word: befriend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle school standards of cool, or when cast aside by the piercing looks of waiters and store clerks--Sherri has never cracked her positive attitude. She never loses hope that others will soon see her as a genuine and funny person to befriend instead of a disabled nuisance to pity or even worse, to ignore. Sherri has taught me that the most beautiful aspect of friendship is connecting with each friend on a personal level, seeking out the one thing that really sets your friendship awhirl...

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

Last year Disney linked with Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli to release video or theatrical versions of nine films, including the anime auteur's delightful My Neighbor Totoro (about two kids who befriend a chubby forest sprite) and Kiki's Delivery Service (a cute teenage witch launches her own broom-propelled FedEx). Disney now has the world's top-three animation studios: its own unit and the computer tooners at Pixar and Ghibli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazing Anime | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Harvard police yesterday warned students to be on the watch for a homeless man who might try to enter their dorms, and rooms, trying to befriend them...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Hunt for Homeless Intruder | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...said his job is to not to befriend teachers, a sentiment shared by Massachusetts Speaker of the House Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A More Turbulent New England Schoolhouse | 9/22/1999 | See Source »

...illegitimate. As if in atonement for her youthful fling, Isabelle is now, in her early 30s, the image of propriety, maintaining perfect posture and an immaculate French twist. She craves respectability but is too poor for the upper echelon of Shirley Falls and too proud to befriend her co-workers at the mill. Amy shares her isolation, and an intense connection is born of their mutual dependency. Still, Isabelle yearns for more--her boss, sex, an existence outside the lonely one she shares with her child: she "could not bear to stop thinking that her real life would happen somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Full Terms of Endearment | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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