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Word: cat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything, and Emprise still controls all of Arizona's dog tracks. It will be interesting to see if Adamson can pull down any walls with his testimony, as the autumn rolls on into winter. It's about time to reverse a few things in Arizona: time to bell the cat that killed Don Bolles, because he was curious...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Lonesome Death of Don Bolles | 10/1/1976 | See Source »

...think you've been jaded by violence on TV, it's nothing until you've seen it in real life," one Foch St. resident who had seen the corpse of a dead woman on the street recalled yesterday. Even her cat, who usually sleeps on the ledge outside her house, was throwing up after the incident and having one of his "thunder and lightning storm fits," she added...

Author: By Michael L. Silk, | Title: Foch Street Tries to Forget | 9/29/1976 | See Source »

...gathering was to be a coalition of the already-think ranks of third party conservatives. The fat-cat, somber-looking pin-striped remnants of the Reagan crusade, shunned by the Republican Party in Kansas City, were here to build a 'New Majority' on the structure of the American Independent Party. For a week they had been on the phone to Reaganites but, as a prominent conservative told me, not one Republican office-holder defected. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson, Illinois Congressman Phillip Crane--none set foot in the Hilton. 'National Review' editor William Rusher...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: The Soap Box, The Ballot Box, The Jury Box and The Cartridge Box | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...South; it "comes up a cloud." For young children, the mystery of the belly button is easy to explain: it is "where the Yankee shot you." Acquaintanceship? "We've howdied but we haven't shook." Crowding? "There's not room enough in here to skin a cat without getting hair in your mouth." If things are going well, "life's just a slide on a doughnut." There is also the Southern man who lies so much that he needs someone else to call his dog. Similes fall like raindrops: slow as a pond, high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Just a Tad Different | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...Harvard dean recently put it, "Matina has had to spend a great deal of time maintaining the institution. Radcliffe is being swallowed and she's gotten the thankless task of seeing that the cat [Harvard] swallows it slowly, piece by piece...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: Ruling over Radcliffe | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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