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Word: mowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough, now the "animals" that call themselves hunters have to put the blame on their wives: "Deer season was the only chance each year of really getting free of feminine domestication [Jan. 15]." If they want to be "free" and out in nature, why don't they mow their lawns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1979 | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

With The Grass Is Always Greener, an adaptation of her bestselling book, Bombeck invades prime time. This made-for-TV movie is intended as a trial run for a future sitcom. Let's hope that some one at CBS has the good sense to mow Grass down at this early stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: One Hit, Two Misses | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...your movie. We're the ones who ended the goddam war!" he shouts, and turning to a New York City policeman, adds: "Mow 'em down, why don't you? In 1968 you knew how to mow 'em down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Manhattan: Reliving the '60s | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

That left me incredulous. Such a mindset only "prepares" one to unquestioningly take up the work of the multinational corporation--with no social responsibility. Such an attitude allows you to practice law with no concern for justice, or to pay your taxes and mow your suburban lawn with no concern for your life as part of a community. The Harvard that educated social and political reformers like Adams, Thoreau, FDR and Nader is getting its old veins clogged with rampant pre-professionalism. Harvard itself is not beyond reform; we all know our lives and educations here could be better...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: You Can Save Harvard ... Or You Can Turn the Page | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

With Tiger starter Fernando Arroyo settling down to mow down Boston's awesome lineup, the game rested on the shoulders of the Sox pitching staff. As has happened so often in 1977, the mound crew did not come through...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Red Sox Falter in Detroit, 5-4; Slip Three Games Out of First | 9/23/1977 | See Source »

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