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Word: bluepoint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 3,000 words, the request seems not only reasonable but prudent. Sample: "The heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love?" This is followed by a blank quarter-page, then: "Long lewdly leering lips; dark-blooded molluscs." (Joyce appears, quite properly, to have clammed up at this bluepoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinking Stones | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...more men buy cats than women do-probably because cats (unlike dogsj never have to be taken out for an 11 p.m. "walk," a chore that traditionally falls to the man of the household. Among pedigreed cats, most popular breed is the seal-point Siamese, followed closely by the bluepoint Siamese: these two account for 80% of U.S. purebred-cat sales. The once modish Persian is sold to only about 8% of the cat customers-mostly women and children, who like the Persian's fluffy coat. However, only 4% of all U.S. cats are registered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Keeping Tabs on Tabby | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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