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Word: meow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York, feline adoptions from animal shelters have zoomed 30% in the past three or four years. Cats are also becoming a factor in the American economy. Owners will shell out $1.4 billion for 1 million tons of cat food that carry such whisker-licking names as Meow Mix and Tender Vittles. These processed delights consist largely of soybean, corn and wheat. One hundred eighty-nine million dollars' worth of cat-box filler will inevitably follow. Revenues to veterinarians, animal psychologists, pet shops and grooming parlors will add even more millions. All of this must be added to the initial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...chosen to show you can do something with a building that's not the cat's meow," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Converts Old Radcliffe Building To Solar-Heated Housing for Elderly | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...take all of these things, go to the nation and really keep reaching them. I think that Carter came back with the answer, "Well, I've already laid it all out, I laid it all out--you remember--three years ago, and you made fun of me, calling it 'meow,' and it turns out I was right." This is where the self-righteousness, the belief in self, and a certain...edginess, a certain tension came over. Defensiveness. He somehow thinks that, if he lays it all out, they'll understand and they'll act--that that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Not What We Were Looking For' | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

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