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Word: bites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the Bruin goal, however, the game's biggest offensive star was a dog that bounded onto the field, joined the fray, executed a snazzy breakaway and proceeded to bite the ball voraciously...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Booters Fall to Brown Again, 1-0 | 11/4/1985 | See Source »

...turf of Brown Stadium this afternoon, Harvard must beat the Bruins. Because if the Crimson loses, all hopes for a bite of the Ivy League pie are baked...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: Gridders Test Big, Bad Bruins Today | 11/2/1985 | See Source »

...also struggles with carnal desires. He reads and translates erotic passages from Juvenal. When these sessions succeed, he writes: Masturbatus sum. Shortly after he arrives, he develops a crush on Fanny Cooper, the daughter-in-law of the local Methodist preacher, whose husband then providentially dies of a rattlesnake bite. As the diarist's history slowly emerges, he becomes that quintessential hero of American literature, the self-exile on the run from his past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Search of Immortality the Tree of Life | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...easy way simply to bury the toxic-waste problem has fed the ever present NIMBY (not in my backyard) syndrome. "Something's got to give," protests Christopher Daggett, EPA administrator for New York and New Jersey. "Either we aren't going to have cleanups, or someone's going to bite the bullet and start accepting wastes. But Lord knows, no one wants to be first." Daggett and his boss, EPA Director Thomas, contend that there is no ready technology that can promptly solve the disposal problem. "We can't wait around until we have the ultimate answer," says Daggett. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Problem That Cannot Be Buried | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...they cut each other enough to bleed profusely. The uninfected child might get AIDS only if blood from the AIDS victim entered his body through a cut, which is unlikely but not impossible. As an extra precaution, some health authorities recommend that AIDS children who might bite or are incontinent be kept out of school, though urine, like saliva, has not been known to spread AIDS. Even the obvious injunction to avoid intercourse with an AIDS victim is not easy to follow. Up to a million Americans are thought to have been exposed to the virus, and the vast majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not an Easy Disease to Come By | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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