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Word: girly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foot and can't walk. It has a head and can't talk. What is it? 2) What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its root upward? These are only a small sampling of Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles (Farrar, Straus & Gir-oux;$11.95). The mystification is alleviated by Beisner's teasing illustrations, which scatter clues for those who know how to observe. The answers, incidentally, are: 1) a bed, 2) an icicle. And those are the easy ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Mixture of Humor and Wonder | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

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