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Word: mascot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekend drew to a close, the happiest participant probably was Cory Pina, 8, winner of a contest to name the fair's squid mascot, henceforth to be called Cal Amore. Receiving a $500 savings bond and a family trip to Disneyland (plus $500 in cash for his school), Cory is already well financed for next year's squid gala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: A Squid Fest | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

Protected from hunters since 1962, Florida alligators have made a comeback from near extinction to a population of more than a million. They became a kind of state mascot, fed by tourists and fussed over by residents -- until last week, when a ten-foot bull gator lurched out of a lake near Sarasota and dragged off four-year-old Erin Glover. When law-enforcement officers caught up with the creature six hours later, they found the dead girl still clamped in its jaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: Stalking the Wild Alligator | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...hooliganism in 1985, 18 of baseball's 26 teams (including the Dodgers) have closed their bars after the seventh or eighth ^ inning, twelve have instituted nondrinking "family" sections, and a few have decreased the alcohol content of the beer and banned carry-ins. In Baltimore the unofficial Oriole mascot, beer-bellied Cabdriver Wild Bill Hagy, ceremoniously tossed his cooler off the upper deck in protest. "While it may have a number of social causes," says National League President Bart Giamatti, "fan unruliness cannot be separated from the issue of excessive use of alcohol. I have no data, but I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Heady Mix: Booze and Baseball | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...result, the first all-male a capella group was formed in the spring of 1946, named after the reptillian mascot of the Pudding Club-The Harvard Krokodiloes...

Author: By Christopher G. Azzoli, | Title: Harvard's Vaudeville: Groups Hit High Note | 4/21/1988 | See Source »

...goal for the Black Bears while the opposing goalie was still in the net...Thanks to *** Morris at Alaska-Fairbanks for her input this year for The Hockey Notebook II. Thanks also to Julie Woltjen at Alabama-Huntsville, Joe Bertagna '73 and Steve Armstrong for cross-checking the Clarkson mascot...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: In "Other" Final Four, "Other" Lakers Superior | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

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