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Word: pigged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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come back as a pig; if your greatest desire...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...pinch. The twin guitars here are turned up so loud that, even though the chords are relatively straightforward, a whole host of wonderfully accidental noises are created. Also featured are Squirrelbait's homey and near illiterate lyrics, culminating in the heartfelt chorus; "I don't need no pig stomping on my buzz...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: You Want This Badly | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

Back in 1958 I witnessed the expulsion of Boris Pasternak from the Writers' ( Union. Some even demanded that he be thrown out of the country. They called him a "pig rooting in our Soviet garden." Today Historian Dmitri Likhachev in a Literaturnaya Gazeta article unequivocally demands that Doctor Zhivago be published. Today our literary journals are preparing important books for publication: Vladimir Dudintsev writing about Stalin's suppression of genetics; Anatoli Pristavkin on the forced resettlement of ethnic Chechens from the Caucasus; Anatoli Rybakov on the assassination of Sergei Kirov. All these subjects were banned in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Poet's View of Glasnost | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...species of mammals. Among the trees is the project's namesake, the guanacaste, whose branches can stretch over an acre of land and whose trunk soars 100 ft. Spider, howling and white-faced monkeys swing through the forest canopy. White-tailed deer and peccaries (a kind of wild pig) forage in the underbrush. Jaguars, ocelots, coyotes and gray foxes roam the woods at night. Ridley turtles nest on the park's Pacific beaches. Says Janzen: "Virtually all the species that were there when the Spaniards hit are still around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Growing a Forest From Scratch | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...basically studied on our own from the age of 12 on. We helped each other a lot," Grant says. The family received textbooks by asking for sample copies from publishing houses. "Grant was really the guinea pig," Drew says. "He would tell me which books were good...

Author: By Mei LIN Kwan-gett, | Title: From Breeding Goats to Taking Notes | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

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