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Word: curl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Midda celebrates the English garden in delicate watercolors. In and Out of the Garden (Workman; 128 pages; $14.95) will give snowbound nature lovers and backyard farmers cause to revel in vividly rendered pears, potatoes and peas. Tendrils of painstakingly crafted calligraphy-herbal aphorisms from Solomon to Poet John Clare-curl through tiny landscapes. There are also illustrated guides to flowers, fragrances and remedies offered by the bewhiskered farmers and thick-waisted matrons who tend these jewel-like plots. As for the predatory animals, like a good gardener, Midda has banished them from the greenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Treasures of Art and Nature | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

Polsinello moved the squad inside the Harvard ten by hitting Daly on a curl in front of Delgadillo. Three plays later--and 39 seconds into the fourth quarter--Maher took it over for an 11-point Dartmouth lead...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Gridders Suffer Their First Ivy Loss; Green Defense Halts Multiflex, 24-10 | 10/17/1981 | See Source »

...youngster, Richard Lee Owen II loved to curl up with the discarded lawbooks he obtained when his grandfather took him along on a visit to the county courthouse. By the time he was 13, however, Owen was on the wrong side of the law, serving time at an Indiana reform school for stealing from purses during a church choir rehearsal. That was the start of a life of crime, including a bank robbery and an attempted murder, that has kept him in prison for 19 of his 35 years. But now Owen has rediscovered an old friend-the lawbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Before the Bench Behind Bars | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...Queen, the young Princess continued chatting with the Prince. Hardly the proper reaction, especially when the subject of the song is standing a few feet away. Without saying a word, Queen Elizabeth turned to her daughter-in-law with that now famous "We are not amused" look that would curl the hair on a corgi's back. God Save the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 21, 1981 | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...tune, Orange Blossom Special, and won their suit. In the case of the permanent that wasn't, Beauty Salon Operator Katharina Binder borrowed a glass of water from the judge and dunked a strand of young Michelle's hair into it, hoping to show that it would curl. But her hair was dead in the water-and so was the Binders' case. Concluded Wapner: "Michelle appears to me to be an extremely nice young lady. I like her looks, I like the way she spoke, and I believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Oyez! Don't Touch That Dial | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

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