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Word: pretender (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Would you rather go pretend to have fun in a dorm room with rotting naked people? We do a cappella stuff too, real tight...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blast! Preview: More Interviews With Tonight's Bands | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...would be so ergonomically perfect that you would be like oh, this is heaven....There are parts of me that want to jump out and go to Hollywood and pretend to be an actor for awhile. There are parts of me that want to sit down and write screenplays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Introducing: Fifteen's 15 | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...have seen better days. With their doors closed to outsiders--for some even to members--they are no longer the party places of yesteryear. As the punch season draws to a close, the message Harvard now sends to final clubs seems to be one of peaceful co-existence: We pretend you don't exist, you pretend our rules don't apply. Yet the question remains, how can the University hasten their...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Keep Them Off Campus | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

They still teach kids about the birds and the bees. It's just that these birds wear chastity belts and the bees pretend they have no desire whatsoever to pollinate the local flowers. According to new studies by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, that's pretty much the script in one third of American public schools. Such abstinence-only programs, which are particularly widespread in the South, keep the lesson simple: Sex before marriage is wrong, and contraception does very little to keep pregnancies or STDs at bay. Critics charge that abstinence programs ignore the realities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Teaching Chastity 101 Really Work? | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...feel good to pretend that we live in an imaginary world where Radcliffe as an undergraduate institution still exists, but it accomplishes nothing to mire the Council in a symbolic anachronism," Lev Polinsky '99-'00, who sponsored the legislation, wrote in an e-mail message...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Election Eve, Council Keeps Radcliffe, Burton | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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