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Word: nosing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordinary onions. The Vidalia is a yellow Granex type F-1 hybrid, a variety grown throughout the country. Grown elsewhere, however, the same onion can bring tears to the eyes. Grown here, it is called sweet-and is. The former presidential press secretary contends it will not make "your nose run, your heart burn, or your sweetheart gag." (In fairness, it should be pointed out that other localities, like Walla Walla, Wash., also produce a sweet onion. Tests have shown that the sugar content in the Vidalia is highest; it seems to have something to do with the mild climate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Onion, Onion Is All the Word | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...courtship sequences and isolating about 40 specific behavioral acts, Vliet has come to have more sympathy for the creatures. If it is difficult for a nonspecialist to tell male gators from females, it can apparently be hard for the gators too. To examine prospective mates, they slowly bump nose-to-nose or nose-to-head-and-neck, or else try submerging each other in a lugubrious contest of love. "I can swim to within five feet of a courting pair if I do it slowly and stay low in the water," Vliet says. Because of their poor underwater vision, submerged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Poor Vision | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...cast of Patience is smaller than most G&S crews only seven women from the maiden's chorus and seven men the dragoon soldiers. And yet the small company ample fills the intimate Agassiz stage, which is highlighted with a colorful backdrop of two birds standing nose to nose and flowers spread over the two story set. The costumes are floral as well. Characters constantly flourish huge plastic flowers, reminding us that the traits the plot hangs on are ephemeral and will wilt in time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex Appeal | 7/12/1983 | See Source »

...been reminded of venereal disease as only the military can remind you, and you had been warned about Key West. You had been told drugs were everywhere, but for the last four months you had thought that the only thing you could count on tickling your nose was the business end of a Kalashnikov. They said this was a strange terrain of suspicious sexuality-gays are all over. And they said to watch your self around reporters, who would probably offer to buy you a drink to loosen you up. A sergeant said this was the way to respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Liberty but All Keyed Up | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...read this far, however you must be cooler than AOR and here are some places for you Spit, on Lansdowne St. is for the safety pin in the nose set The Metro, its neighbor, is only slightly more conservative. Both are hot, huge, modern dance halls replete with the latest videos. National new wave acts do make stops, but not much yet is scheduled for the summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston's Smorgasbord of Sounds | 6/26/1983 | See Source »

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