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Word: barkings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult to argue that student government at Harvard should be political. How do you argue that cats should have fur or dogs should bark? They simply do. What on earth is an apolitical, elective, legislative assembly? The Undergraduate Council has, and inevitably will have, a political role at Harvard. Arguments that it should not are just poor excuses for ignoring student concerns...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Sizing Up the Council | 2/6/1986 | See Source »

...Huskies' opponents in the opening round are the all-bark-and-no-bite Terriers of Boston University (1-7), losers to NU earlier this season, 6-0. The Crimson powdered BU 11-1 last Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Women's Beanpot: Northeastern the Key | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...nature leads to several interesting questions. Which is inherently more dangerous, a hurricane or trying to go for the last empty seat on an "A" train to Brooklyn? Would not trees be better served with a lightweight and washable covering of Orlon instead of the traditional but greatly outmoded bark? And finally, who has more control over the sanctity and destiny of human life. God or Ed Koch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Can't Fool Mother Nature | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...diagnosis is the one-liner. "You need to accept imperfection, and I can help you with that." Bruce's doctor, Mrs. Wallace, displays her wackiness through her wild word searches--"derigible...no, I mean secretary!"--which are over-written, though not overplayed. If you want a stuffed Snoopy to bark support for your ability to express your emotions, she's the shrink for you. She helps Bob, Bruce's lover, when he is suicidally upset with Bruce for seeing a woman (Prudence); she helps them all in the end, if they can be helped, with...

Author: By Susie Kim, | Title: What Do They Want? | 11/1/1985 | See Source »

...snug bedroom, where he is commanded to repair without supper after his mother (Mezzo Mary King) loses patience with his antics. Just as in the book, the room blossoms into an enchanted forest and is, in turn, transformed into a broad ocean upon which floats a bark named Max that takes the boy to the volcanic land of the Wild Things. Even the smoke-snorting sea monster that pops up from the waves to terrorize Max makes an onstage appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mastering the Wild Things | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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