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Word: pawing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most Unnoted, Notable Play: Middle guard Greg Gicewicz picked off the first interception of his career in the second quarter of last weekend's lost to Holy Cross. Gicewicz hauled the ball in at the line of scrimmage after teammate Mike Murphy got his paw on a Jeff Wiley pass. Gicewicz (6-ft., 1-in., 210-lbs.) lumbered 46 yards to the 29-yard line before being caught from behind by Crusader running back Darin Cromwell...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: It's Ivy-Hunting Season | 10/5/1988 | See Source »

...since childhood), with his clients (an overbearing parishioner who wants to buy his child's way into the church school) and with his territory (blatant boosterism for the suburb's tacky shopping mall, dominated by the "40-foot idol" of the Great Badger, complete with waving paw and an exposed, red neon heart). Even his assistant lets him down at first. When Joe gets a curate assigned to him, he turns out to be a child of the '60s, in jeans and T shirt, who plays folk guitar and cannot type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Separation Of Church and Dreck WHEAT THAT SPRINGETH GREEN | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

McConaghy, who plays outfield when he's not onthe mound, is the top returning hitter forHarvard. The junior south-paw hit .409 last year,and garnered second-team All-Ivy honors. He wasalso an All-ELBL Honorable Mention...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Batsmen Take Spring Break Seriously | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

...your old buddy Gordo since you last heard my signal, soon after I crash-landed through the Tanner family's garage roof and decided to stay here in sunny California. There are drawbacks: this place earth is so outsville you can't buy a whisker omelet or a tabby-paw pie. Here, when people stroke cats, they aren't even trying to get the meat tender for sauteing. Yet they eat armored slugs that they call escargots! And they never heard of sloppy joes with fiber glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stranger in A Strange Land | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...elegant, fur-clad woman sports a bloody animal paw worn as an earring and a steel trap as a brooch. Her picture is accompanied by this warning: THE LEG HOLD TRAP -- FOR ANIMALS THAT DON'T GET STRANGLED, BEATEN, GASSED OR ELECTROCUTED. That poster is part of a campaign by Britain's animal lovers to publicize the inhumane manner in which many fur coats are produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Furry Furor | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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