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Word: skittered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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They hunker down. Still so much to say. They have long ago left the smell of the flower behind and are hurtling down streams of consciousness as if taking rapids. Their necks and shoulders are locked. Their hands are disembodied and skitter from left to right like the automatic returns on electric typewriters. Finally, they stop and wait, heads up in bloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STUDYING STUDENTS | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

Several students say they have found distracting the crisscrossing words that skitter across the long sign...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Students: Loker Light Board Is Not Such a Bright Idea | 2/3/1996 | See Source »

...Rink in 1984. For star Chita Rivera, a seven-time Tony nominee still dancing at 60, Kiss is her first Broadway show since Jerry's Girls in 1986. During that run, she broke her leg in a car accident and was told she might never again walk, let alone skitter, strut and tango eight times a week as a combination film- noir diva and emblem of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Along Comes the Spider | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

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