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Word: clucks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone kept clucking. An eternity of Red Sox failure. Generations cursed. Cluck, cluck...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Soaking Up Some Timeless Fen-Rays | 4/15/1986 | See Source »

...will continue indefinitely to act bonkers, save lives and refresh viewers' spirits. Radar will lose and find his Teddy bear and, maybe, lose his virginity. Klinger will show up in that cunning little chiffon number he bought in Seoul. Frank will fritter and whine and cluck like a chicken. B.J. will keep trying to prove he is not the most decent soul south of the 38th parallel. Winchester will open another picnic basket from Mater and savor caviar on a tongue depressor. Father Mulcahy will smile and sigh. Trapper will somehow keep his balance on that second-banana peel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: M*A*S*H, You Were a Smash | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...catching scandal. Today, Boston residents who want their news served up with an eye to long-term significance, not short-term sensation, know they are down to one choice And for them, the morning newsstand routine of reaching for the Globe now also includes time out to cluck at the Herald...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Don't Knock The Rag | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...King is horrified by the "cattle call," an open audition at which nearly 3,000 players vie for fewer than 20 parts. He discovers a homosexual tryst in a packing crate, loses his grip when a chicken called Modine pecks its understudy to death and is replaced by Cluck Gable, and suffers a painful disorientation when he stands in for Leading Man Henderson Forsythe. The amateur actor drops his prop pistol, is smothered by a Texas flag and walks into a brass pole trying to exit. During a pantomime phone call, instead of staying in character, King mutters into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cattle Call | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

Rock is still a kind of music-and a life-style-in which women are frequently called "chicks" and are, as performers or presences, expected to behave accordingly. You cluck prettily. You smooth your feathers nicely. You don't try to take over the barnyard. When Carolyne Mas says, "I'm not a chick singer," she is not so much handing down a manifesto as setting up an aesthetic credo. Mas has no special interest in forcing some shotgun wedding of feminist politics and rock; neither do the others. They sing songs of personal reflection, not propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chick Singers Need Not Apply | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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