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Word: hammer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last time the Harvard men's basketball team beat Princeton, George Bush was President, MC Hammer was funky as all-get-out, and Tim Hill had probably never heard of the backdoor pass...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Men's Basketball Upsets Princeton | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...simply has to change the perception that it's the impeachment party," says Dickerson. That unpopular image is a much harder noose to slip out of, and one that will take all the political talent that GOP leaders can muster. "The Republican party," says Dickerson, "needs to quickly hammer out a post-impeachment agenda and start lining up achievements in Congress." Policy activism, however, is also the strategy that the Democrats need to pursue. That battle could make for yet another nasty partisan fight. So what else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's to Be Done After Impeachment? | 2/9/1999 | See Source »

...most people remember. Grandmaster Flash warned, "Don't touch me 'cause I'm close to the edge." Then there was Run-D.M.C. rocking the house, and the Beastie Boys hollering, "You gotta fight for your right--to party!" and Public Enemy saying, "Don't believe the hype," and Hammer's harem-style balloon pants. Then gangsta rap: N.W.A. rapping "F____ tha police"; Snoop drawling "187 on an undercover cop"; and Tupac crying, "Even as a crack fiend, mama/ You always was a black queen, mama." Then Mary J. Blige singing hip-hop soul; Guru and Digable Planets mixing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...rhythms on a plastic bucket. Marie, the little girl who dreams of journeying to unknown lands, has become Miesha, the knowing offspring of a single-mom family, while her godfather Drosselmeyer, though still endowed with magical powers, also plays trumpet like Miles Davis and does a mean MC Hammer imitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleveland: Hardening the Nutcracker | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...showing what we carry," he explains. One idea he had was to paint three pillars-"what a nice boutique would have"-but instead of topping them with chunk-heeled shoes, topping them with a hammer and nails...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TheFINE ART WINDOW DECORATION | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

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