Word: dealt
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...vote on either Bush or Gore, but gave it to a third party candidate, as a dissenting gesture that now, of course, looks lame). I doubt that if George W. Bush sat down to play a game of seven-card stud, deuces wild, he would, after the cards were dealt, bring in lawyers to claim that treys and one-eyed jacks were also wild, and that the game was really night baseball...
...dealt a slew of tough-luck losses, including a string of five defeats to close out the season. After falling 2-1 in overtime on Saturday to Columbia, which had not won a league game previously, Harvard understandably believed that it had hit rock bottom...
...hasn't been all good times though. Like Hillary, we had our early '90s health care crisis; the failed banning of final clubs by the now-defunct Radcliffe Union of Students. That didn't help our popularity much. And, sadly enough, in the new millennium we still haven't dealt with the issue to either of our satisfactions...
When students returned from intersession in 1991, they learned that the search committee had been dealt an unexpected blow: search committee member and businessman Mockler, the CEO of Gillette Company, had suddenly died...
...assistant deans of freshmen do seem to try to give people from warmer places locals as roommates. My roommate, who hails from Newton, Mass., advises that cold weather is best dealt with by dressing lightly and running from place to place. When it started snowing yesterday, he wore a long-sleeved shirt and a light fleece vest. Being cold in October toughens you up for when it really gets frigid in December, he reasons...