Word: pesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deep night out on a Texas plain flat as a pan bottom and just about burned through. A recent rain had slaked the land a little but brought forth legions of ants to infest the ground and pester a nearby film...
Seriously, this doll stuff has got to go. Further dolls include pound puppies, teach and play kids, wide-eyed or sleepy real babies, kari-me babies, koosas, etc. Robots, too, now serve as companions, as shown by Omnibot, Omni 2000 (a steal at $399.97), Pester Puppy and Cat (why does the feline cost $20 more than the pooch?) and Alphie II. How are today's kids ever going to learn to deal with other tots who want different things for lunch and who who bleed if you bang them off furniture? Nothing is sadder than the five-year...
...says there are some difficulties inherent in making a living on the street: beggars sometimes pester him for loose change, and transients sometimes ask him for cigarettes...
...there was Serge Mihaly, who combined with Leone to hotfoot the Harvard quarterbacks all afternoon, slithering past the blockers and crashing into the Crimson backfield to pester whoever was throwing the ball (Harvard passed out of the quarterback-in-motion formation all afternoon, back-up Don Allard launching 23 passes to starter Cuccia's seven...
...unscheduled events on the President-elect's calendar. Schmidt was in Washington as a result of a miscalculation; he had expected Carter to win the election and scheduled an early visit to patch up their strained relations. In the new circumstances, the German leader had his aides pester Reagan's advisers with requests for a meeting...