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Word: flirted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...recognize ballroom dancing as an official sport, and has not even included it on its list of "emerging" sports--a list that includes synchronized swimming among others. Additionally, many purists among sports fans consider it odd that an event so entirely unlike baseball and basketball would flirt with any level of athletic recognition...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Ballroom Two-stepping Between Sport and Passion | 5/17/2000 | See Source »

...same as "how." We don't know how the brain holds the logical connections among ideas that spell the difference between "Burr slew Hamilton" and "Hamilton slew Burr," between the image of a person winking to realign a contact lens and that of a person winking to flirt. These distinctions don't appear as blobs in a brain scan. They arise from the microcircuitry of the living human brain, and most people don't want to donate their brains to science until they're dead. (As Woody Allen said, "It's my second-favorite organ.") For a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will The Mind Figure Out How The Brain Works? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...much as I loved my self-indulgent life, I got lonely. I tried to find love with my studly neighbor Joe, but he was a total tease. He would flirt and kiss and eat my home-cooked meals, but I never got the gold ring. I asked him to marry me five times, and he always gave me some lame excuse: either he was too hungry to think straight or he didn't think we talked enough. Since when does a guy want to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hangin' with the Sims | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

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