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Word: disrespectful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lack of a regular vocalist. After all, how many rock bands can you name that don't have a singer? In keeping with this idea of unconventionality, the band somehow managed to play a sterling, albeit too-short, set and escape the stage without uttering a single word. This disrespect for the traditional protocol of the rock band concert goes a long way towards explaining why Death In Vegas' music, both recorded and live, is as good as it is: the band just doesn't care what you think and is all the better...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Love and Death in Vegas | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...would have thrown a cup at him," steams McCarthy, who says he has witnessed numerous incidents of disrespect toward the staff...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Dining Halls Face Staff Shortage In Boom Times | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

What concerns me much more than the fallacious description of drinking at MIT is the blatant and unnecessary disrespect for an institution with which your university has a long-running mutually beneficial relationship. You claim that MIT has a reputation for "technologically incompetent students." I know of no one who feels that MIT produces anything but the best and brightest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Yeomen of the Guard still search for powder kegs in the cellars of the Palace of Westminster (to commemorate the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605) and various officials still wear powdered wigs and walk backwards when retreating from the presence of the Queen so as not to show any disrespect for the Sovereign...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: The Queen In Parliament | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...Gene's divorced mom, Eileen Stewart, 42, a former computer consultant. Thirteen of the Dirties come to her house five days a week for an informal study program. She knows their class schedules and their family situations. They call her "Mom." But Mom has rules in her basement: no disrespect, cursing, drugs or sex. Their real parents must know where they are, and they must do their homework. Stewart keeps the basement open until 10 on weeknights, midnight on weekends. "They can study here and hang out and be O.K.," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thursday: 3:30 P.M. The Basement | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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