Word: girlfriend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people's heads in revenge for having lost his own --or so goes the rumor in town. When lanky, schoolteaching Ichabod Crane comes to town, alienating the locals with his intellectual pretentiousness, he scoffs at the legend and further ruffles burly townsman Brom Bones' feathers by flirting with his girlfriend, Katrina Van Tassel. Riding home after being rebuffed by Katrina at a quilting party one night, Ichabod begins to take the town's superstition more seriously when he hears the clippety-clop of a following horse. His fears getting the best of him, he is eventually reduced to a quivering...
...When Vicky celebrates with friends, she stays sober. "My sister, my girlfriend, and I went out," she remembered. "We were of age to drink, but we just watched our other friends drink. Some girls got so drunk, they had to sit in the corner. The rest of us had Coke. Or you know what I drink?"--Vicky flashed her trademark grin--"I drink pina colalda, but without the alcohol," she said. "And I watch them sit in the corner and I dance and dance and dance." Now she stays at home with Katerina. "We're going to be home this...
...Alistair Isaac, who was originally a member of the Class of 1999 before he took a year off. He's not much of a sports fan but has attended the previous three Harvard-Yale games. For a long time, The Game commemorated his first meeting with his former girlfriend, as they had first dated during Harvard-Yale weekend years ago. But things have changed...
...first-year roommate in Mower Hall was Jones, then wild-eyed and, in the words of a contemporary, "working-class." At first appearance, the two couldn't be more different. Gore was friendly and accessible but quiet, fond of studying in his Mower double. He had a steady girlfriend, Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Aitcheson, his future wife...
...Gore had a steady girlfriend," says Kapetan. "His weekends were...you know...