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Word: dobbin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...religion in the U.S. I Hear America Swinging concerned the manner and mores of the newly liberated male; Comfort Me With Apples chose the form of parody for a series of hilarious lectures on modern literature. Here, sexual harassment is the ordure of the day. Voluptuous, innocent Daisy Dobbin, an investigative reporter, is sent undercover into New York offices to collect evidence for her feminist editor Bobsy Diesel. But it is the leathery Bobsy who does the harassing, vigorously attempting to seduce Daisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Galloping Lust, Crawling Remorse | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...also set the boundaries of the city, in a manner described by Charles William Eliot II in S.B. Sutton's Cambridge Reconsidered: "The optimum area for a town was figured by the time-distance from a meeting house which would permit the farmer to milk his cows, harness old Dobbin, drive his family to the meeting house, endure a two-hour sermon berfore refreshment at the tavern, and drive home again to milk the cows in the evening...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Church, State, and Liquor A Social History | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

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