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Word: frogged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year the Crimson, now coached by Sue Caples, breezed through four Ivy contests with an unblemished record. The seniors were finally getting a taste of victory. The frog turned into a prince. The glass slipper...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Fairy Tales Don't Always Come True | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

...some 150 American zoos in between, the troubles are not very different. The sharks eat the angelfish. The Australian hairy-nosed wombat stays in its cave, and the South American smoky jungle frog hunkers down beneath a leaf, all tantalizingly hidden from the prying eyes of the roughly 110 million Americans who go to zoos every year. Visitors often complain that as a result of all the elaborate landscaping, they cannot find the animals. But this, like almost everything else that goes wrong these days, is a signal that America's zoos are doing something very right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The New Zoo: A Modern Ark | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...devil make her do it? Who cares? Don't try to read too much into every frog, dog and December Bee motif in Woman in Mind. It's just fun to watch. Even sober...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Out of Their Minds? | 5/10/1989 | See Source »

...difference. In Beth Henley's 1984 off-Broadway hit The Miss Firecracker Contest, a seamstress named Popeye Jackson explained that as a child she "used to make little outfits for the bullfrogs that lived out around our yard." In this expansive adaptation, Popeye (Alfre Woodard) displays one such frog, cunningly coutured in a nurse's gown with matching stethoscope. Ah, the glamorous realism of the cinema! It's cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dreams To Avoid | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...fanning the summer heat off Elain's body. They serve well this fable about the need to realize that some dreams are better off not coming true, at least in a town where the local tramp is the wisest soul around and the pouting princess is revealed as a frog who needs to put a stethoscope to her own porcelain heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dreams To Avoid | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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