Word: mice
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enusing struggle is made infinitely more vivid by some neat anthropomorphism. The Disney creators of talking mice, ducks and crickets again break new ground by devising human-like computer programs, creatures who carry their intelligence--programming orders--on frisbees attached to their backs. They live in the computer system, itself conceptualized as an incredibly complicated maze of tunnels, valley and towers...
Crowds lined the shores of the Charles Saturday to watch another crude flotilla of makeshift rafts exchange rounds of water balloons, fruit vegetables, eggs and less familiar objects. Thankfully, there were no dead mice this year...
...golf course, Stadler spits and fulminates, though he hasn't flung a club in a long while. He stands 5 ft. 10 in. and weighs 216 Ibs., but what really ought to be measured is his hands. They are hands from Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. The price of having huge hands is having huge feet, and his have suffered much in his wild swinging tantrums. All of the pros talk of limping in, but Stadler has done...
Subways have always been noisy and dirty, but by last week even the rats had had enough. Area residents have repeatedly complained that rats and mice fleeing the MBTA construction project have invaded their homes and businesses. On Wednesday, the Cambridge City Council got into the act, demanding that the MBTA immediately provide free extermination services for about 100 Porter Square families. As old sailors used to say, rats would always leave a doomed ship just before it foundered...
...passed over the centuries from the epic to the cheap and commercial. Once the name was instantly recognizable as the hero of Ariosto's 16th-century narrative poem; now it conjures up the strains of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon "Round the Old Oak Tree" and the sun-soaked giant mice of Disneyworld, Florida...