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Word: preferments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Ernst Untzinger clumsily tries to touch the hand of the overly handsome waiter Luke, a graduate student who may be having affairs with both Ernst and Ernst's wife. Luke hires himself out for parties so that he can supply guest lists to a ring of thieves who prefer to pull off their heists when no one is home. Hilda Damien, the self-made millionaire whose healthy glow gives her the look of "a mild sunset," is unavoidably detained and never shows up for dessert. About the time the creme brulee is served, Hilda is being smothered to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death Comes With Dessert | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Still, there are many at Harvard who prefer consuming food to serving it. The 250 Ivy League students participating in the seventh annual Pachanga celebration and forum, a four-day round of workshops, dinners and dances, will be doing a lot of that this weeekend...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Nothing Like Home | 11/21/1990 | See Source »

Once again, the activists announced, it is our responsibility to act as the moral conscience of the nation by saving our own skins. Through amazing coincidence, the course of action that most students prefer had found a moral justification...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Bring Back the Draft | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...know if it's worth $82.50--that's what the calculator cost," said David G. Hill '94, a Math la student. "I prefer a more straight-forward math approach...

Author: By Toyia R. Battle, | Title: Math Switches Calculus Focus | 11/14/1990 | See Source »

...Adjectives are added to the word `development' and they are not helping. I prefer the term social transformation," Wamba said, adding that "The desire for change is there...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: Visiting Prof Discusses African Nation-Building | 11/14/1990 | See Source »

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