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Word: breedings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play is its best when it simply exposes the foibles, ironies, and hypocrisy of this breed of American The first act sticks much more closely to this loose structure than the second act. This latter part of the play becomes very confusing as it ignores timelines and allows class struggle to poke its nose, however discreet and upturned, out. Fortunately the second act is very short and we only see the left nostril...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: A Hive of WASPS | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

More than half a million people have applied to leave the country legally, but under the Orderly Departure Program, only about 300 emigrants a week make it out. Many are the bastard children of G.I.s. Says Refugee Tran Thi My Chau, 17: "Everybody called me con lai (half-breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: A Pinched and Hermetic Land | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...marriages. But now split-level suburbia is the new deal on wheels. An up-and-coming crowd of diesel outriders are bringing their homes and their wives along in fully outfitted, self-contained living quarters set behind the driver's cab. If they need a handle, call this new breed truppies, upscale truckers who like to have a place to call home wherever they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Now It's Home, Home on the Road | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...Foundation in Woodside, Calif., for half a year before scampering out and into traffic. Koko, 13, who is said to have a sign-language vocabulary of about 500 words, indicated to a research associate that she wanted a replacement and picked out a drawing of a Manx, a rare breed with no tail. And now Koko has her wish, an orange male Manx kitten. "Baby," signaled the thrilled Koko. "My cat good." Michael, the center's male talking gorilla who lives in the next cage, would like the cat to be his and has proposed Banana as a name. Koko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 15, 1985 | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...German cockroach, blattella germanica, which are colored greenish-gold and grow to be an inch long, is the most common breed in Harvard dining halls, says Alpert. Darker roaches like the periplaneta americana and Oriental blatta orientalis are found outside kitchens in places that includes student rooms, he adds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Common Cockroach | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

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