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Word: ingrid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...title flower triggers a savage turn of events when the poet Ingrid Magnussen poisons her lover, consigning herself to a jail life and her 12-year-old daughter to Los Angeles' foster-care system. Young Astrid gets off to a shaky start at the home of a born-again Christian who shoots her in a fit of righteous jealousy. She survives that, though, as well as prison notes from her mother, which include sentiments like this: "Sometimes I wish you were dead, so I would know you were safe." Fitch tends to get lost in the lyricism of her prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Oleander By Janet Fitch | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...slaying of three U.S. citizens near the Venezuelan border seem unlikely to punish the real killers. A spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) claimed at the time that the three U.S. humanitarian workers--Terence Freitas, 24, from California; Lahe'ena'e Gay, 39, from Hawaii; and Ingrid Washinawatok, 41, from Wisconsin--were abducted and killed by a local squad leader acting without higher orders. Their bullet-riddled bodies were discovered March 4. But Colombian military intelligence intercepted a radio conversation between the squad leader and his senior officer, German Briceno, in which Briceno ordered the squad leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Rush to Justice | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...made it through junior high loyally preferring Marlon Brando to Luke Perry and Jimmy Dean to Christian Slater, I'll never know. Years before I first blushingly kissed a boy in the eighth grade, I could already recite Humphrey Bogart's monologue to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. After a particularly heartrending breakup at age 16, I cried myself a cathartic river watching Cary Grant, waiting futilely for Deborah Kerr atop the Empire State Building, in "An Affair to Remember...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, | Title: Endpaper: Play it Again, Sam | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...made it through junior high loyally preferring Marlon Brando to Luke Perry and Jimmy Dean to Christian Slater, I'll never know. Years before I first blushingly kissed a boy in the eighth grade, I could already recite Humphrey Bogart's monologue to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. After a particularly heartrending breakup at age 16, I cried myself a cathartic river watching Cary Grant, waiting futilely for Deborah Kerr atop the Empire State Building, in "An Affair to Remember...

Author: By Terry E. E. chang, | Title: Play it again, Sam | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

Harvard will also send talented juniors Beth Zotter and Ashley Berman on the attack. Against Central Connecticut St., the duo combined for a goal apiece, as well as three assists. Their contribution will be much needed against the tough Hawks defense, and its great junior goalkeeper Ingrid Sternhoff...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Faces Round Two | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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