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Word: moans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither did the children. They have been relocated near the women. Heads shaved, they seem of one sex or of none. Some are naked. They are penned in a small dark space; they smell of urine; their thighs are stained with excrement. They seem to moan continually. One boy shivers, another laughs. A legless girl spoons mush into the mouth of a younger one. A woman lurches forward and shouts in English: "I am normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut: Seven Days in a Small War | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, a terminal degenerative illness of the nerves and muscles. Now, at 40, Hawking remains confined to an electrically controlled wheelchair and has difficulty holding his neck up when he speaks. Even then his voice barely escapes--it comes out sometimes as a guttural moan--and Hawking generally travels with an interpreter...

Author: By Matthew L. Meyerson, | Title: The Radiance of the Mind | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

Actually, when you throw it against a wall or very high in the air, it begins to moan; after about 15 seconds, it manages a husky "I love you." The doll's name? "Dumpelina." Swear...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toys for the Real Generation | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...their great light most writers of another, older sort look pale and foolish. It is not an age of literary craftsmen; most of the wordsmiths (and, lacking ideas, that is what many of them are) are left to moan about bad grammar and teach composition...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Small is Beautiful | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...erotic by stuffy Soviet standards. Yelena Shanina (Concha), a Goldie Hawn lookalike, and Nikolai Karachentsev (Rezanov), a dark, dour figure, embraced on the brightly lit, transparent Plexiglas stage. When the nightgown-clad Concha wrapped her legs around Rezanov, he fell avidly upon her. The house lights darkened as the moan of the electronic strings reached a crescendo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lenin's Rockers | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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