Word: disappoint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...watch another I Love Lucy rerun or do your homework, studying didn't look so bad. Today the competition for my children's attention is almost unending. With choices ranging from sports and music lessons to computers and, yes, the ever present I Love Lucy reruns, my children would disappoint me if they were eager to do their homework every day. But by keeping it all in perspective, I am optimistic that we shall make it, at least until middle school! LISA NEWMARK New Albany, Ohio...
Harvard sophomore Andrew Merrill did not disappoint in the No. 4 match against Lord Jeffs' senior Stephen Seelbach. This match was in best-of-five format, and the players were closely matched. Merrill came out strong with a 15-8 win in the first game, but Seelbach battled back and won the second game 15-14. Merrill triumphed in the third game 15-12, and the match swung dramatically in his favor. By the fourth match, Seelbach was finished mentally and could only muster a weak six points, dropping the last game and the match...
...keep coming back? It's a question I puzzle over regularly, likening my allegiance to the Knicks to alcoholism or a similar addiction. I know it's bad for me, I know the Knicks will disappoint, and yet I watch anyway...
Harrington said Stewart did not disappoint...
...Bumpers, billed as a star orator, did not disappoint. "When you hear somebody say 'This is not about money,'" he said -- quoting H. L. Mencken and delighting the audience -- "It's about money. And when you hear somebody say 'This is not about sex,' it's about sex." He told a story about how he and Clinton had once survived a rough plane landing in Arkansas: "We jumped out and ran away unscathed ?- to the dismay of every budding politician in Arkansas." He recited constitutional history and discussed patriotism, and at one point almost began to cry. He talked about...