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Word: grouching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sentiments are so right on. You know it's gotta be amazing when, on the first side, Oscar the Grouch belts out a convincing "I Hate Christmas." When he sees Santa coming, he sings, "Who needs that great big noise? I tell him where to put his toys...

Author: By Eric B. Fried and Susie Spring, S | Title: Hark! the Herald Cashiers Ring | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...obviously 1 not quite fit as a fiedler, but nobody in Boston's packed Symphony Hall had expected him to be. For one thing, the Hub's beloved grouch and historic landmark, white-thatched Conductor Arthur Fiedler, 84, was climbing the podium to commence his 50th season as leader of the Boston Pops. More, Fiedler scarcely five months earlier had undergone massive brain surgery. The years and fears showed mainly in the fit of his bib: Fiedler ill had lost so much weight that Wife Ellen insisted on smaller tails from Brooks Brothers. Otherwise, things Pops-wise were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...guest appearances on such varied offerings as the old Ed Sullivan Show and the current Saturday Night Live. This week an hour-long TV special, Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, is on view in the U.S. And, of course, the Muppets Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, who lives in a garbage can, and the renowned Big Bird, who is 8 ft. tall and has not just an arm but an entire person inside him, have presided over Sesame Street since that wonderfully imaginative children's show began ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...would form the Muppet style were coming together. Only dialogue was missing, and this appeared in primitive form when they signed to do a series of commercials for Wilkins coffee. In the first of these, a happy character asked a grouchy type what he thought of the coffee. The grouch said he had never tried it. Happy produced a cannon and blasted Grouch. Then he turned his cannon on the audience and asked: "What do you think of Wilkins coffee?" Sounding weary in the recollection, Henson admits, "We did about 160 of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Man Behind the Frog | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...which the two went at each other in the dugout after Martin pulled Reggae, admittedly one of the worst gloves in right anyone has ever seen, for dogging it. Reggae certainly upset more than a few Yankees with his proclamations of greatness and heroism; Thurman Munson, the redoubtable catcher-grouch, was not the only one pissed off by Reggae's almost childish need for attention. (After all, there are no Thurman Bars...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Shame of the Yankees: Martin Pulls the Ripcord | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

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