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Word: hyena (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baritone wrath of conservatives and liberals alike. She was vilified for arguing that women should be able to achieve financial independence and for suggesting that given equal education and opportunity, females would be the professional equal of men. Horace Walpole called her a "philosophical serpent" and a "hyena in petticoats." Even her friends, the liberal though pious Dissenters, were shocked by her challenge to the ancient wisdom that considered women to be imperfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ms. Prometheus | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...sanitation and nutrition, and to conduct vaccination campaigns. But some of the missions are more urgent. The doctors have flown into the Tanzanian bush to operate on a nun who broke both legs in a fall into a well, performed an airborne operation on a youngster savaged by a hyena, and saved the life of a Kenyan fisherman who nearly drowned when his dugout canoe overturned in the surf and an anchor pierced his arm. They routinely treat casualties of tribal warfare and those fortunate enough to live through attacks by crocodiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Flying Doctors | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...when Dartmouth and its disgusting traveling freak show of greenjacketed, hyena-mouth fans invades Cambridge to sleep on our floors, crash our parties, vomit on our rugs, and laugh all that way back to Hanover after flushing yet another Harvard football team down the nearest John, I feel like getting sick, which if you've suffered through enough Dartmouth debacles like I have, you've done more than once...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: CBS Reports | 11/1/1973 | See Source »

...introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits of Lyndon Johnson as a nearsighted longhorn steer, J. Edgar Hoover as a squat bulldog and Spiro Agnew as a hyena occasionally annoyed editors and readers. As a result, papers sometimes dropped the strip. Kelly professed indifference ("They usually come back"), but he sometimes prepared alternative, apolitical episodes and let his subscribers choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bard of Okefenokee | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

...been addicted, this sort of thing may sound like olw-camp, soft-shoe style, particularly when the words are deprived of the deep adenoidal torque that Art Van Harvey, as Vic, used to put on them. But a true believer can be reduced to the helpless laughter of a hyena in a feather factory by some scenes. At one point, Vic is memorizing the opening ritual for his lodge meeting. Rush is checking and prompting him from a copy made by Miss Gregg, Vic's secretary. The following exchange takes place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bow-Wow and Barley! | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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