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Word: cat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troll, or a goblin or something." Harriet names him Ben and brings him home to his father and siblings, who learn to shun and fear him. The infant is physically precocious and incredibly strong, and he betrays no trace of human sympathy or fellowship. A dog and a cat about the premises die mysteriously, apparently strangled. David and Harriet come to view Ben as an enemy, one who "had willed himself to be born, had invaded their ordinariness, which had no defences against him or anything like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home Is Where the Horrors Are THE FIFTH CHILD | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Eleven seconds after UVM's Toby Ducolon was sent to the box for interference, Lappin took a pass from defenseman Brain McColgan and drilled a slapshot past Cat goalie Mike Milham...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Saints Prey Upon Cats, 4-2 | 3/12/1988 | See Source »

...that you've had your frozen diet gourmet TV dinner and played checkers with the computer, what other experience is left to simulate? Would you believe a video dog? A video cat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Please Turn Off the Dog | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Gingerich says that he obeys all of the biking laws. "After seeing CAT-scans of brain-damaged people, I always wear a helmet," he says. "I never ride in the Yard. I would never pull anyone off their bike. I think evil thoughts about them, though...

Author: By Abigail N. Sosland, | Title: Harvard Bicyclists Break Away From the Rules | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

...terrorized earlier generations. At the time that Lyndon Johnson launched his immense rescue mission, the Great Society, more than a quarter of all old people lived below the poverty line. In the popular imagination, being old usually meant a frail and lonely dependency, in which old women lived on cat food in spartan apartments and relied on busy children or social workers for a ride to the doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Grays on The Go | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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